Wodehouse and Woolf in High School, an Imaginary Dialogue by Jenny
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10 responses to “Wodehouse and Woolf in High School, an Imaginary Dialogue by Jenny”
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I love Wodehouse, but in this case, I'm with Woolf.
“Oh, I banged the thing out last night.”
Thanks for the giggle.
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Hilarious! Can't leave that gravitas unsupported [bg]
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Nope, that gravitas is a tricky thing. =)
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:-)))
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Brilliant!!!
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Favorite line: “A rose is too trite.” This post was great fun!
I found your blog through a comment you left on Writer Unboxed, and you are definitely a girl after my own theiving heart:
http://rosemarydibattista.com/blog/2010/12/adapting-shakespeare-part-i/
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Hey Rosemary! Keep on thieving girl! Like I recently told a buddy of mine: You can't have too much Shakespeare. =)
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talk about timing! I am researching (for something I am writing) the relationship, if any, between the two writers. I google the names together and the first result leads me here!
But really a good one! They are a strange combo, aren't they: one is stream of consciousness and the other is template!
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Ajay- Definitley keep me posted on what kind of relationship you find. They seemed like they would spin around the same circles, and I thought I'd find a bit more connections too, but Wodehouse was way more the world traveler and was either in America or Europe (mostly) for a lot of the time that they could've socialized.
Something interesting I did run into is that both of them talk about Cricket – Wodehouse obviously more often – but Woolf has an interesting bit in The Waves about a boy on the sidelines watching all the 'cool' boys in the cricket team. It struck me that, if anything, Woolf was always the last kid picked and would sit on the side watching kids like Wodehouse play…such an interesting juxtaposition I thought.
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It is interesting! And the funny thing is Plum saying that he “ignored real life altogether”.
Plum was quite passionate about cricket as evident in his early stories, especially ones with Mike. But once he moved to U.S, he moved on to golf. Much later in life, he even said he preferred baseball to cricket.
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