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- From: dwalton1@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (david walton)
- Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:21:37 GMT
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- In article <C1Bx9t.9Gt@unix.amherst.edu> rlharrin@unix.amherst.edu (Rich Harrington) writes:
- >
- > I'd agree that, for myself, the Blandings stories are probably the
- >funniest. I'm thinking particularly of _The Crime Wave at Blandings_, and
- >the one that preceeded it, where Lord Emsworth's personal secretary (what
- >the *heck* was his name??) stood out in the garden throwing flower pots.
-
- In lemon-coloured pajamas, to boot. Yes, that story is absolutely my
- favorite as well. I'm not quite sure why; I think it's just the
- completely unpredictable way in which Emsworth finally sits up and
- takes a stand, and the air of peaceful finality that descends over
- Blandings once the Battleship Constance has been cowed. It's like a
- vague and dim-witted tree sloth (most of them are, I suppose) finally
- telling an impolite and rather aggressive crocodile stationed
- underneath its true to put a sock in it, with the crocodile too
- stunned by this upset in the natural order of things to do anything
- but shove quietly off. Not a terribly realistic analogy, I'll admit,
- but colorful, what?
-
- >That isn't to say that I don't enjoy any of the others. The Drones Club
- >stories are probably just as good. The Jeeves stories, though, I never really
- >got into. It's interesting that they are the most famous ones. I guess a lot
- >of folks do like 'em.
-
- I think the strongest selling point of the Jeeves and Bertie stories
- is the dialogue. There's something in Jeeves' understated and
- tongue-in-cheek responses to Bertie's idiocies that's better than the
- dialogue in most of the other stories. There are notable exceptions,
- of course, but the fact that a large part of these stories centers on
- the interaction between Jeeves and Bertie suggests that there's
- something special about the way they (do or don't) relate.
-
- > Rich Harrington -- Probably not related to Othella
-
- --
- { David Walton Mail to dwal@midway.uchicago.edu }
- { These opinions are all mine, and the University of Notre }
- { Dame has no right (and probably no desire) to claim 'em. }
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