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samanthalueus
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When I was schooling, our English master forced us to read up P.G.Wodehouse. He said it would improve our style and vocabulary. The old man was right.
It did help a lot. You know what a "lily-livered poltroon" is? Aha! For that you have to be a Wodehousian.
I started with the "Jeeves" series. Carry on, Jeeves", etc. and my last book was "Mulliner Nights". When I went to do my medicine in India, Higginbotham's was a treasure house. So I continued with my forage into the world of Wodehouse. Bertram Wooster getting into trouble all the time. Jeeves would ridicule him, just by lifting one eye-brow.
Such subtlities.
I only dropped Wodehouse when I became addicted to Ian Fleming. But Ian Fleming is no master. But through him, the world got its greatest hero of all times-J.B. Not JayBee. I meant James Bond-special agent 007, licenced to kill
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