Day 3
In your own space, share a favourite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favourite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much.

So although I am currently reading Joy in the Morning, I thought I’d share some extracts from Right Ho, Jeeves, which I love so much omg.

Firstly:

‘I don't want to wrong anybody, so I won't go so far as to say that she actually wrote poetry, but her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don't sometimes feel that the stars are God's daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit.’

Even aside from the hilarity of this section, I love the way that it tells us a bit about Madeline while showing us quite a lot about Bertie. His aversion towards sentimental style romance & writing poetry and all that, but still not wanting to actually ‘wrong anybody’.

Secondly:

I consulted Jeeves once more in the language of the eyebrow. He raised one of his. I raised one of mine. He raised his other. I raised my other. Then we both raised both.

That’s so cute, omg. It’s the sort of playfulness that is sort of hidden under Jeeves’ reserved exterior, but is definitely there… I love them, the dears.

Thirdly:

"I beg your pardon, sir. I was thinking of a tale my Uncle Cyril used to tell me as a child. An absurd little story, sir, though I confess that I have always found it droll. According to my Uncle Cyril, two men named Nicholls and Jackson set out to ride to Brighton on a tandem bicycle, and were so unfortunate as to come into collision with a brewer's van. And when the rescue party arrived on the scene of the accident, it was discovered that they had been hurled together with such force that it was impossible to sort them out at all adequately. The keenest eye could not discern which portion of the fragments was Nicholls and which Jackson. So they collected as much as they could, and called it Nixon. I remember laughing very much at that story when I was a child, sir."

This quote is interesting to me, not only because Jeeves is clearly an absolute lad wtf why would you taunt somebody like this, but also because Jeeves is often associated with brevity, yet moments like this betray his tendency to go on a bit. I mean, Bertie does often cut off his attempts to talk about relatives/past employers!

(Also – fuck Word, which has decided to tell me that the comma after ‘bicycle’ is unnecessary & should be removed. How dare you question old Plum, Word?)