Jeeves & Wooster: Panic: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Panic
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster
Rating: Gen
Notes: References to "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.


I’d taken to greeting Jeeves in the a.m. with a corkin’ first line from the lot my book-monger had sent ‘round.

‘The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge’ won me a nod and ‘Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again’ a half-smile, but ‘as Bertram Wooster awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect’ resulted in a look of abject panic.

“May I never be forced to choose between feudal loyalty and household hygiene, sir.”

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I can see Jeeves monitoring Bertie's literary intake from now on.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes! Who knows, next might be Nietzsche, who Jeeves considers most unsound.