music and quotes

It appears I forgot to pass this along. Slow, sleeping music. Guy on the banjo must be new to the instrument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMvpeYBnwTg Slack Bird "levan polkka".

"we drank 11 bottles of beer... and walked home in the cool of the evening with our feet feeling very far off and unrelated and yet moving at terrific speed." Ernest Hemingway

"Dear Old Bill: Weren't you damned sweet to write me such a damn fine wonderful letter after I've kept one from you about this time last year unanswered all the time." Ernest Hemingway

Oh and while we're at it, just for a laugh, the girl just wants to go to the pub. Don't be oppressin' her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soI0q3CBliE

reading

Finished reading Wodehouse's "Return of Jeeves" last night (this was called "Ring for Jeeves" in civilized countries). The first novel in a five novel volume.

This book was originally published in 1953 and doesn't show Wodehouse in his top form. The characters, plot, and language just aren't as good as what you might get used to reading his earlier works. Jeeves in present, but he doesn't really feel like Jeeves. But toward the end there were some lovely turns of phrase which are quite fun.

Check out some of the early Wodehouse but alas don't go out of your way for this one.

"Jill stiffened haughtily. There was not much of her, but what there was she drew to its full height. 'No, I won't,' she replied in a voice straight from the frigidaire."

"A proud man is never left unruffled when worsted in a verbal duel with a cook, especially a cook aged fifteen with pigtails, and in the Chief Constable's manner as he turned on his butler there was more than a suggestion of rogue elephant at the height of its fever."

30. P. G. Wodehouse "The Return of Jeeves"