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Good place to say what a profound genius P G Wodehouse was. Here's one of my favourite exchanges from a Jeeves book: "If you will recollect, we are now in Autu

by dash2 5y ago

Good place to say what a profound genius P G Wodehouse was. Here's one of my favourite exchanges from a Jeeves book: "If you will recollect, we are now in Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness." "Season of what?" "Mists, sir, and mellow fruitfulness."

heavenlyblue 5y ago
What is that about?
- FoldMorePaper 5y ago
  A reference to a Keats poem, apparently? <https://poets.org/poem/autumn https://poets.org/poem/autumn>
- dash2 5y ago
  The joke is Jeeves' very solemn quotation of a famous Romantic poem.