I Have a Wodehouse Problem. The Problem Is I Can’t Stop Reading Him


PregnantLame is on My love of language and accuse my father of this – this is “this” – my unhealthy need for the stories of P. G. Woodhaus. Witty, wonderful, winding, wise stories about Jiva and Bertie; Empress Blandings (prize pig) and her perfectly not forgetting the champion, the ninth graph; Mr. Malliner; And everything else. Jivs, the erudite, infallible, not to mention the outrageously loyal vascular for Bertram Wuster, who does not deserve rather, but curious a charming person about the city, is probably the most famous of these characters. But they are all amazing, I assure you.

Having received Wodehouse with my dear old patter (as most likely PG, probably in adolescence, I grew up and put off the author when I went to graduate school, raised children, and pushed my way to the current passage, the context of which is as follows: one pandemic summer, I beat the WodeHouse fabric on COTTAGE, And at 202222, my shortage.

But now it has come to this: I need to retain my Wodehouse! I can not do without a morning blow, a quick (and accelerating) injection of “solar perfection” (Stephen Fry). To pamper myself to write death too liberally, so I limit myself to no more than three pages on the go, I go one at a day, with the first cup of coffee. Given this restriction, the morning wodehouse does not occupy most of my day, but anxiety about the role that she plays in my life is another issue.

Evelyn Wu, in the frequency of tribute to one master to another, Evelyn Wu, correctly assures us, “the idyllic world of Mr. Woodhouse will never be able to establish. He will continue to free future generations from captivity, which can be more irritable than us. ” It is prosperous, ideal for making a diagnosis about why my problem of abuse of Wodehouse is currently threatening to get out of control. In July 2023, I took over the leadership of my academic department (philosophy). A boy, this is a tired captive, the more, because it is damn dirty. Complaints about your party make you sound like Woster, expressing shock and confusion from the thought that there are people who should do without a servant.

At the same time, my habit is so bad that I am ready to decide on professional softening. For Wodehouse there is an insightful path with philosophy and philosophers. Arthur Schopenhauer, who claimed that life is a business that does not cover its costs, is regularly checked; And once Bertram U., with a stunning incredible, managed to tackle with a woman who would set him the task of reading a thick book called Types of ethical theoryThe field after it flashed through an amazingly reinforcing selective proposal, it turns out to be in need of recovery and the way to escape. Jivs notes that the next philosopher in the queue was Nietzsche, and: “You will not like Nietzsche, sir; He is fundamentally unexpressed. ” Professional translators Nietzsche (I am one of them), perhaps, it would be good to advise himself the task of explaining why Jivs is wrong here for the imaginary audience of Jvesus himself.

But no, the meaning of Woodhaus is not in further philosophy; It is necessary to revel in such miracles as “such a quiet air when I do not want to stand on any Rannygazoo,” which is so often found in directors, specialists in sergeants, police constables, some postal clerks, and I am afraid, too many university administrators. So this, in a word, is the source and the correctness of my troubles: too great love for earlygazes – his cubic yards. Unrivaled to his dangers, helpless in his presence, I admit: I have a problem with earlygazes. I swear, I work on it (but not everything is so complicated).

Mark Migotti is the head of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Kalgary and a member of the Committee on Education in the Morgea.

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