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- From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: Is this Wodehouse ?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 20:45:48 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- Alok Mathur (amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
- >
- > "...A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
- > waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."
- > Sounds like something that Plum would have written, doesn't it ?
-
- Oh, jeez, no. Plum's descriptions were rarely cruel. At worst, they leaned
- towards humorous caricatures. This, in fact, looks like something from
- Kingsley Amis or Evelyn Waugh.
-
- > Actually the credit for this goes to Mark Twain (according to fortune).
-
- Or Mark Twain..
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