The Infant Samuel at Prayer (TISAP)

Ian Michaud, TWS

2009-10-24 01:35:17 UTC

Post by Sam the Sudden
Last Saturday we held a wonderful event in Amsterdam at the dutch
P.G.Wodehouse Society: smashing The Infant Samuel at Prayer (TISAP) to
pieces as palliative to relieve anger.
The infant was made by Gwladys Pendlebury and originated from Sir
Joshua Reynolds's oil painting, "The Infant Samuel" (1776), in the
Tate Gallery in London.
Soon the question popped up: how many times and where is TISAP
mentioned in the books and stories of PGW?
"Pots o'money" (1914, The man upstairs, ch.4)
"Piccadilly Jim" (1917, ch.11)
"A damsel in distress" (1919, ch.7)
"Sundered hearts" (1922, The clicking of Cuthbert, ch.4)
"Ukridge's dog college" (1924, Ukridge, ch.1)
"The truth about George" (1927, Meet mr.Mulliner, ch.1)
"Honeysuckle Cottage" (1927, Meet mr.Mulliner, ch.9)
"Code of the Woosters" (1938, ch.5)
Is there more, can one of you help me out?
Sam the Sudden

It also gets a mention in Chapter 19 of "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit" when
Aunt Dahlia was in one of her destructive moods. But in this case Bertie
was merely recalling her earlier burst of vandalism described in "The Code
of the Woosters."

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