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- From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
- Subject: Re: Wodehouse query
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:38:51 GMT
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- The poem about the sunset resembling a slice of underdone roast beef appeared
- in two novels, neither of which I can recall the title to. One was definitely
- a Jeeves & Bertie, and I believe the character "Stilton" Cheesewright appeared
- in it. Here, I think it was someone with a crush on M. Bassett complaining to
- Bertie about what a Philistine Cheesewright (his rival for the lady's
- affection) was, illustrating with this poem with an unnamed individual and the
- poet standing looking at the sunset. The poet compares it to those in the
- times of Helen, etc., and the guy next to him then asks doesn't that sunset
- resemble a s. of u.r.b. "Bitter," the author comments to Bertie. "Oh, quite
- bitter," Bertie agrees. Years later I read another book in which the poem was
- just alluded to, with no pejorative feeling at all attached to this carnal
- simile, just to heighten the allusive humor for those who'd read the other
- book. The second book might not have been a J&B, since it wasn't that long ago
- that I read it, and I think I exhausted the J&Bs quite a while ago.
-
- -Neal Whitman
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