Jeeves & Wooster: Despair: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Despair
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster (by P.G. Wodehouse)
Rating: Gen
Notes: The joke is Jeeves hates it when Bertie decides he's going to grow a moustache (just like David Niven)


Though stoicism is the cornerstone of my profession, my reserve does not render me immune to negative feelings. I have known war. I have known disappointments, untimely loss, and harsh economy. I have known illness. I have suffered slights and sorrows, if you will, the slings as well as the arrows of fortune. However, since I began my post as valet to Mister Bertram Wooster, I have come to recognise a novel despair, singular and heretofore unknown to me. It seizes me when my employer announces he is off to the cinema to view a film featuring Mister David Niven.

Comments

[out_there]

Hee! I especially liked: "I have suffered slights and sorrows, if you will, the slings as well as the arrows of fortune" -- it felt very precise and sharp, as Jeeves should be.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! It's a bit of a Bertie flourish, but I think Bertie's way of talking would rub off a bit on ol' Jeeves. But oh, the moustache! :/ Quelle horror!

[smallhobbit]

On the other hand at least it gives Jeeves time to prepare his resistance.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, no surprises!