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A review by linda_don
The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology by P.G. Wodehouse
5.0
If you read anything from this (admittedly large) anthology, let it be "Uncle Fred in the Springtime," and "Over Seventy." I'd love to be able to pull a quote that would convince other people to pick this up, but are far too many of them and I'll have to settle for this:
"I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing', and those who do that -- humorists they are sometime called --- are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at. When I tell you that in a recent issue of the New Yorker I was referred to as 'that burbling pixie', you will see how far the evil has spread.
These things take their toll. You can't go calling a man a burbling pixie without lowering his morale. He frets. He refuses to eat his cereal. He goes about with his hands in his pockets and his lower lip jutting out, kicking stones. The next thing you know, he is writing thoughtful novels analyzing social conditions, and you are short another humorist."
Hilarious and lovely.
"I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing', and those who do that -- humorists they are sometime called --- are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at. When I tell you that in a recent issue of the New Yorker I was referred to as 'that burbling pixie', you will see how far the evil has spread.
These things take their toll. You can't go calling a man a burbling pixie without lowering his morale. He frets. He refuses to eat his cereal. He goes about with his hands in his pockets and his lower lip jutting out, kicking stones. The next thing you know, he is writing thoughtful novels analyzing social conditions, and you are short another humorist."
Hilarious and lovely.