Nothing nasty in the woodshed
John Bayley, 25 October 1990
Yours, Plum: The Letters of P.G. Wodehouse
edited by Frances Donaldson.
Hutchinson, 269 pp., £16.99, September 1990,0 09 174639 6 Show More
edited by Frances Donaldson.
Hutchinson, 269 pp., £16.99, September 1990,
“... into their own dreams and vanities: their great hearts were not on display. Did Wittgenstein read P.G. Wodehouse? Probably not, but had he done so he might have got on with him very well, as he did with the conventions of early cinema. With such things you knew where you were, and a philosopher likes that: Gilbert Ryle, so it is said, thought ... ”