The NYTimes page on Youtube comes up with some interesting features - like the following one about a young artist's struggle and how he is happily surviving at 1000$ per month, unlike many of his 5000$ per month salaried friends:
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 8, 2009
Another P G Wodehouse Moment
Thursday, May 7, 2009
A P.G. Wodehouse Moment
I listened to it at the end of the 8th Chapter (here), and absolutely loved the one particular line italicized below.
Dialogue between Bertram Wooster and Tuppy Glossop (Bertie going first).
Context: Bertram Wooster’s manservant, Jeeves, is renowned for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie’s friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. Bertie Wooster is jealous of Jeeves’s fame, and decides to step in and take over as the fixer of his pal’s engagement, his aunt’s gambling debts and old school-mate’s desire to propose marriage. But as we see in this conversation, his "clients" do not hold him in the greatest of confidence...
"And at dinner you will push, as arranged?"
"Absolutely as arranged."
"Fine."
"It's an excellent idea. One of Jeeves's best. You can tell him from me, when you see him, that I'm much obliged."
The cigarette fell from my fingers. It was as though somebody had slapped Bertram Wooster across the face with a wet dish-rag.
"You aren't suggesting that you think this scheme I have been sketching out is Jeeves's?"
"Of course it is. It's no good trying to kid me, Bertie. You wouldn't have thought of a wheeze like that in a million years."
There was a pause. I drew myself up to my full height; then, seeing that he wasn't looking at me, lowered myself again.
"Come, Glossop," I said coldly, "we had better be going. It is time we were dressing for dinner."
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