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- From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
- Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:54:06 GMT
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- In article <Jan.25.22.14.29.1993.5141@foglet.rutgers.edu> josh@foglet.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:
- >Speaking of referring to Wodehouse' works as a Canon, does anyone
- >see the similarity between the Jeeves stories and the Sherlock
- >Holmes stories?
- >
- >* The adventures of two bachelors
- >* who share an apartment in London
- >* one is brilliant and inscrutable
- >* the other one narrates, leaving the reader to try and figure
- > out what the brilliant one sees before it's revealed by the
- > turn of events.
-
- Except that in Doyle, the brilliant and inscrutable partner employs the
- other, and in Wodehouse it is the other way around. Spontaneous
- symmetry breaking, I suppose. :-)
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- -P.
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