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Go read just about anything the man wrote. Still..

  • The simple fact that there's a Wodehouse book (Laughing Gas) with a summary that begins with the sentence "Dirty work in the Fourth Dimension was the cause of all the trouble".
  • The poem "Printer's Error", which is about a writer who realises that the printer of his latest novel has made a disastrous typo.note  He buys a gun and goes in search of the offending printer:
    I know how easy errors are.
    But this time you have gone too far
    By printing "not" when you knew what
    I really wrote was "now".
    Prepare,' I said, 'to meet your God
    Or, as you'd say, your Goo or Bod,
    Or possibly your Gow.'
  • From the preface to The Clicking of Cuthbert, Wodehouse defends his accurately quoting Keats' mistake:
    In the second chapter I allude to Stout Cortez staring at the Pacific. Shortly after the appearance of this narrative in serial form [in America], I received an anonymous letter containing the words, “You big stiff, it wasn’t Cortez, it was Balboa.” This, I believe, is historically accurate. On the other hand, if Cortez was good enough for Keats, he is good enough for me. Besides, even if it was Balboa, the Pacific was open for being stared at about that time, and I see no reason why Cortez should not have had a look at it as well.

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