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我最近丧失斗志了,都是因为P. G. Wodehouse。我从早到晚看youtube上的jeeves and wooster。Stephen Fry 和Laurie的老电影了。以前看过几个片断,效果不好,也没当回事。这回发现整部都上了,它...它....简直就是女王脑袋上的虱子头啊。我太喜欢jeeves了。简直就是一个超人哪。
看了连续剧有引得我看他的小说,发现P. G. Wodehouse是个太被低估的作家了。表面上和Jane Austin有点像,幽默而且都是闲杂,但是越看越觉得这部作品其实很有寓意,竟然是很有系统地文化讽刺啊。另外,这个人的语言太有意思了。嘿嘿
网上找来几个quotes:
"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. "
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
"Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening."
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. |
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