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| Portrait of P.G. Wodehouse (2012) © Benjamin Rendall |
Above In a class about designing digital images, I asked my students to invent "interpretive portraits" of extraordinary men or women from the past, sung or unsung. It's not often these days that I find a student who is familiar with (much less a devoté of) British humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975). But Benjamin Rendall is one of those, and this is his portrait of P.G. Wodehouse.
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Sean O'Casey, Letter to the editor. The Daily Telegraph, July 1941 [referring to Wodehouse]—
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English literature's performing flea.
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P.G. Wodehouse—
There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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P.G. Wodehouse—
The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.
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P.G. Wodehouse—
It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.
