Father Inire is Jeeves

Alex David Groce17 Nov 1999, 12:59original as archived

Continuing the "Tintin" post's tradition of offering spurious sources for Wolfe's ideas: "He has a way of suddenly materializing at one's side like one of those Indian blokes who shoot their astral bodies to and fro, going into thin air in Rangoon and re-assembling the parts in Calcutta. I think it's done with mirrors." -P. G. Wodehouse, JOY IN THE MORNING "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32

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William H. Ansley21 Nov 1999, 00:44original as archived

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Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu> wrote: Continuing the "Tintin" post's tradition of offering spurious sources for Wolfe's ideas: "He has a way of suddenly materializing at one's side like one of those Indian blokes who shoot their astral bodies to and fro, going into thin air in Rangoon and re-assembling the parts in Calcutta. I think it's done with mirrors." -P. G. Wodehouse, JOY IN THE MORNING

Aha! Another Wodehouse fan (or, at least, reader). What other "Bertie Wooster Universe" (or we may need to widen it to the whole "P. G. Wodehouse Universe") to "New Sun Universe" character mappings can we do? Well, if Father Inre is Jeeves then I suppose Severian is Bertie Wooster. They share a tendency to miss things that seem obvious to the reader, at least. Agia = Roberta "Bobby" Wickham Baldanders = D'Arcy "Stilton" Cheesewright Abia = Aunt Agatha Jonas = Gussie Fink-Nottle? This is turning out to be not only one of my more pointless exercises, but quite difficult as well. Wolfe and Wodehouse certainly differ widely (one might say wildly) in style, subject matter and intent in their writing. William Ansley