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- From: brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:45:55 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu> udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626) writes:
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- Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
- club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
- Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
- be surprising, considering the other classical
- allusions in PGW's work?
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- Ganymede is the cup-bearer (butler?) to the greek
- Gods on Mt. Olympus.
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