Post by giacomo boffiPost by giacomo boffior short story there is a mention of sausages made of discontented
pigs, if any?
to give a bit more context to my question, my recollection of the
story is
"a friend of Bertie writes a successful, wildly amusing novel about
his years in public school
the lawyers of the school cite him for defamation on the only basis
that he can't prove that the sausages served at the refectory were
made of discontented pigs, as he wrote in his book
it seems that he will soon retrieve himself pennyless and labeled as
a libelist
needless to say that the good chap's fiancee doesn't like to marry a
libelist, in particular a pennyless one and she turns her gaze on
Bertie, until Jeeves restore happiness"
to me it's more PGW-ish than any of my fantasies, but i can be
wrong...
I think the novel you're looking for was published in the USA as _How
Right You Are, Jeeves_ and in the UK as _Jeeves in the Offing_.
Bertie's friend didn't actually write a "novel within the novel" as you
recollect; instead Reggie "Kipper" Herring is a writer for a literary
magazine who is assigned the task of reviewing the memoirs of the
headmaster of the school that Bertie and Kipper attended. He assailed
the headmaster's book as not reflecting the former inmates' point of
view, but the cracks about the breakfast sausages were added by Bobbie
Wickham to Reggie's manuscript review...she had found his stories about
them funny and thought they should be published, without thinking of the
legal consequences. Must be that red hair....
-Neil Midkiff
PS to all: I rarely check in on alt.fan.wodehouse these days, as the
discussions are infrequent. Most Wodehouse fans seem to be
communicating on a mailing list called PGWnet, which is a project of The
Wodehouse Society. You don't have to be a member of TWS to join the
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http://wodehouse.org/PGWnet.html
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