Weekend ramblings and Jeeves quotes.

[castalia]

Spent the last day and a half with cimmerianwillow, celebrating my freedom from the world of elementary education. We watched several I Spy episodes, chatted to our hearts content, and wandered around the mall and through countless antique stores.

At the mall, I bought a t-shirt with none other than Oscar the Grouch on it. He's so cute! His trash can has a sign on it that says "Scram!", and even Slimy the Worm is in the picture! I <3 it. *tries and fails to repress inner five year-old*

Finds at the antique stores include a three-books-in-one volume of the first three (chronologically - Horatio's early career) Horatio Hornblower novels (this also contained a surprise: a newspaper clipping of an article about CS Forester's death from '66; it only cost me one dollar, so yay) and an almost-falling-apart copy of The Coming of Bill by PG Wodehouse (only $3, more yay!). There were other books which I'd like to have bought, but they were a bit overpriced.

Speaking of Wodehouse, I recently finished my last Jeeves book, Jeeves in the Morning. As monumental an event as this was, I let it go by without comment. To make up for that, I offer some quotes behind the cut...



When Bertie sees Stilton Cheesewright:
"I started across the road with the idea of instituting a probe or quiz, and at the same moment he seemed to summon up a sudden burst of resolution. As I paused to disentangle myself from a passing bus, he picked up his feet, tossed his head in a mettlesome sort of way, and was through the door like a man dashing into a rainway-station buffet with only two minutes for a gin and tonic before his train goes." - The bit about Bertie disentangling himself from the passing bus is one of the lovely ways Plum could throw in such a comment when you least expected it.

Bertie and Nobby, re Florence Craye and the whys of her appeal:
"I suppose it's her profile that does it. She has a lovely profile."
"Seen from the left."
"Seen from the right, too."
"Well, yes, in a measure, seen from the right, too. But would that account for it? I mean, in these busy days you can't spend your whole time dodging round a girl, trying to see her sideways."

Nobby wants Bertie to say good things about Boko to Bertie's Uncle Percy:
"You'll be able to think of all sorts of things to say about him. Did he ever save your life, when you were a boy?"
"Not that I remember."
"You could say he did."
"I doubt if it would go well. Uncle Percy was none too keen on me at that epoch. It would be more likely to strike a chord if I told him that Boko had repeatedly tried to assassinate me when I was a boy."

"Listen, Nobby," I said.
She didn't, of course. I've never met a girl yet who did. Say "Listen" to any member of the delicately nurtured sex, and she takes it as a cue to start talking herself.

Boko and Bertie, after Boko and Nobby argue:
"Oh, I got away with my life. Still, what's life?"
"Life's all right."
"Not if you've lost the girl you love."
"Have you lost the girl you love?"
"That's what I'm trying to figure out. I can't make up my mind. It all depends what construction you place on the words 'I never want to see or speak to you again in this world or the next, you miserable fathead.'"

Unce Percy lists Boko's bad traits to Bertie, then says:
"When I reflect that I have not dissected Fittleworth, limb by limb, and danced on his remains, my moderation astounds me."

Bertie, pleading Boko's case to Uncle Percy:
"But he loves, Uncle Percy."
"Has he got an Uncle Percy?"
I saw that unless prompt steps were taken, we should be getting muddled.
"When I say He loves, Uncle Percy," I explained, "I don't mean he loves, verb transitive, Uncle Percy, accusative. I mean he loves, comma, Uncle Percy, exclamation mark."

I offer the above as proof that Bertie is indeed intelligent in his way. Fie to those who call him mentally negligible.

Was googling for squid pics again and ran across a couple of squid-related comics:

One Far Side comic which amuses me terribly, and another which makes use of a rather bad pun.

Hope all of you are having a lovely Memorial Day weekend.

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, no. This version doesn't have any illustrations at all, and no cover, really, as it didn't come with a dust jacket. But oh well, it's still nifty, and I like big, dusty hardbacks :)

Btw, love the Faramir/Eowyn icon!

[mijitarica.livejournal.com]

Yes, those are fun too. :) And thanks!