When it comes to romantic affairs, age is never a bar. One gets the courage to stand up to dominating sisters and obtrusive gardeners. Moss covered alleys get preferred over stony ones. Stiff collars get forgotten. The joy of providing nourishment to keep the body and soul of the beloved together reigns supreme.
The superb short story ‘Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend’ was published in ‘Blandings Castle’
My heartfelt thanks to the inimitable Ken Clevenger for contributing a wonderful and very fitting first piece in this Valentine’s series dedicated to the Great Wodehouse Romances.
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Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend
by Ken Clevenger
“Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend” is the great Wodehousian romance, most worthy of a special Valentine. My starting point is the very nature of great romances. Love must blossom, however improbably. It will be heroic, idyllic, and set in the beauty of nature, but not without the odd nettle. In the end love conquers all, as someone once noted; Jeeves, perhaps?
The easy part is to recognize in this “perfect short story” that Blandings and its gardens are the bounty of nature. The nettle, perhaps I should have said thistle, as le mot juste, is…
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My dream is to make a P.G.Wodehouse romance into a kannada serial. I keep imagining Vinaya Prasad as aunt Connie
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A juicy idea, of course, though one would need a literary expert to ensure that the turn of phrase and the dash of humour in the original is captured in Kannada!
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🙂 of course, and the person who does that should also have an innate sense of humor.
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Right ho!
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