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From: American Scholar
Date: 20000622
Author:MCCRUM, ROBERT

The works of P. G. Wodehouse are, I've found, a pretty reliable guide to character. If you are part of the benighted ghetto that is not amused by Bertie Wooster's account of Gussie Fink-Nottle giving away the prizes to the boys of Market Snodsbury Grammar School, or possibly The Clicking of Cuthbert, or even the "Great Sermon Handicap," then we are not likely to see eye to eye. Speaking as a member of that joyous jacquerie of Wodehouse enthusiasts, I'm inclined to suggest that his work is pure litmus paper. Scorn it, and you're damned. Like it, and you join the elect.

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