![]() ![]() Too seriously perhaps, but we’re a serious-minded lot. Wodehouse in Adelaide’s bookstores is, I suspect, a tendency on the part of local readers to take our Literature seriously. Adelaide has fewer bookshops than it used to, and most of them have little or no Wodehouse. ![]() But when I recently attempted a nostalgic pub-and-bookshop tour, I discovered Something Fishy. Adelaide was once a city with so many bookshops that my friends and I designed pub-and-bookshop-crawls around them. This simple task has proved more difficult than you might expect. So it was only natural that, having recently returned to Australia, I set out to compile an ‘emergency’ Wodehouse kit to keep me going until I’m reunited with my books. Wodehouse to help the inmates from sinking too deeply into despair. Every good house really should have some P.G. Here’s a little mnemonic to help you remember. I had been pronouncing Wodehouse as if it rhymed with road-house and toad-house. ![]() Wodehouse, and I’m profoundly grateful to him for saving me from making a complete ass of myself when I began mixing in Wodehouse Society circles (if only he’d taught me how to use cutlery as well). A kindly soul once corrected my pronunciation of P.G. ![]()
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