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I just listened to an interview of P.G. Wodehouse from 1960 that was very interesting

(apart from the interviewer, who was… annoying).

  • Wodehouse sad that his inspiration for wooster’s character was a certain type of young man that he knew in the 1910s when he was young himself.
  • He said Jeeves started work for Wooster in 1916
  • but that he didn’t really feel the need to date the novels specifically after that, or really age the characters as he continued writing them.
  • It was fascinating to hear his voice, which sounded somehow nothing like I expected and exactly like I expected,
  • and to listen to him talk about Bertie,
  • and how he wove Proper Educated English, 20s british slang and american slang accurately and smoothly,
  • and to hear him sort of casually mentioned how the Wars changed things.

He didn’t really get a chance to go into any of these subjects because the interviewer wouldn’t let him but I would have loved to hear him talk about how the real world changed Wooster. It was very frustrating.

When the interviewer asked him about the process of writing his books, he shared a quote which essentially said

‘get your love story right, and the comedy will take care of itself’

he said wasn’t really true, but was the place he started from, said that “it makes a sort of solid foundation for a book.” He talks like that, like a character from Winnie the Pooh or something. He seemed sort of lovely. His voice was both expressive and mild, and he spoke very humbly.

I think it is so amazing that we have recordings of him speaking. That I can hop on my smart tv and listen to a recording of P.G. Wodehouse talking about how wealthy bachelors in his time all had valets and pocket squares and talked like Bertie Wooster.

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