Thursday, June 30, 2016

Not much help there

Had he been in America, he could have consulted Dear Abby or Dr. Joyce Brothers. In London he could think of no one on whose acumen he could place a similar reliance. There was Aunt Phyllis on the weekly paper for which he did a good deal of work, but Aunt Phyllis was a fat man in his fifties with a passion for lager beer and a ribald outlook on life, and he shrank from confiding in him.

(from The Girl in Blue, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)

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