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God & Bertie Wooster.(P.G. Wodehouse's character)(Critical Essay)

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From: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and PublicLife
Date: 20051001
Author:Bottum, Joseph

Suppose that words were all you had. Suppose the great edifice of Western civilization had collapsed around you--all its truths, all its certainties, all its aspirations smashed to meaningless shards. Suppose ... oh, I don't know, suppose that it was 1919, and the First World War had just finished cracking Europe across its knee like a stick, and you were living in what the poet T.S. Eliot in one of his occasional sour moods called the Waste Land, and words were all you had: stray lines from lost poems, refrains from otherwise forgotten songs, tags from half-erased ...

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