wait, this is exactly the voice that i was trying for in my story. you do the wodehouse for 1 note and then put on some other voice in other notes.
i was trying for wodehouse inspired narration of r...
the funny thing i learned about wodehouse yesterday which links to your other notes, was the following:
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During WWII Wodehouse was captured by the Germans in France and interned as a civilian prisoner. When he turned 60 they released him — the Nazis had a policy of releasing civilian internees at 60 — and a German propaganda official persuaded him to make a series of radio broadcasts to America, which was not yet in the war at the time.
The broadcasts weren't pro-Nazi in content. They were essentially Wodehouse being Wodehouse — light, humorous, describing his internment camp experience with the same comic detachment he applied to everything. That was almost the problem. The tone was so breezy that it read to the British public as a man making comfortable jokes while people were dying. The optics were devastating regardless of intent.
Britain was furious. He was called a traitor. There was talk of prosecuting him for treason after the war. He never returned to live in England. He spent the rest of his life in France and eventually America, and only received a knighthood in the last weeks of his life — 1975, essentially a deathbed rehabilitation.
The genuinely mind-boggling part is that his literary reputation survived it at all, and that through all of it he just kept writing the same sunny Edwardian comic universe as if none of it had happened.
Whether he was naive, oblivious, or just constitutionally incapable of registering darkness is a question people still argue about.
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During WWII Wodehouse was captured by the Germans in France and interned as a civilian prisoner. When he turned 60 they released him — the Nazis had a policy of releasing civilian internees at 60 — and a German propaganda official persuaded him to make a series of radio broadcasts to America, which was not yet in the war at the time.
The broadcasts weren't pro-Nazi in content. They were essentially Wodehouse being Wodehouse — light, humorous, describing his internment camp experience with the same comic detachment he applied to everything. That was almost the problem. The tone was so breezy that it read to the British public as a man making comfortable jokes while people were dying. The optics were devastating regardless of intent.
Britain was furious. He was called a traitor. There was talk of prosecuting him for treason after the war. He never returned to live in England. He spent the rest of his life in France and eventually America, and only received a knighthood in the last weeks of his life — 1975, essentially a deathbed rehabilitation.
The genuinely mind-boggling part is that his literary reputation survived it at all, and that through all of it he just kept writing the same sunny Edwardian comic universe as if none of it had happened.
Whether he was naive, oblivious, or just constitutionally incapable of registering darkness is a question people still argue about.
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