#annotated psmith project

Never apologize for asks, but I’m afraid you’ve got the wrong gal! @isfjmel-phleg is the MBTI expert in this quarter!

Anon, this is the opposite of a bother! I’m overjoyed to hear that you enjoy my blog, and I only wish that I could be more helpful in my reply–there’s a sad shortage of Wodehouse blogs on this internet of ours!

My number-one Wodehouse resource on Tumblr is, of course, the indispensable @isfjmel-phleg, whom I figure you have to be following already if you’re here, but giving her some advertising can’t hurt. 

If you want to go off Tumblr, you can do no better than Plumtopia, which updates frequently and always has something new and interesting to chew over. 

They never needed to be an academic endeavor. They were a labor of love, they were so intelligent and they brought me so much joy. I don’t care how long it takes, I’m happy to see them again whenever you’re ready. Thank you for them now and always!!!

@incomingalbatross replied to your post: I have made the decision to take down annotations...

As someone who greatly enjoyed your annotations when I first discovered them, I'm a little sad to see them go, but I support your reasoning and your wanting them to be up to your standards! As Allie said, thank you for having shared them with in the first place.

@readalong replied to your post: I have made the decision to take down annotations...

I started reading the books almost entirely because you made them sound interesting and I wanted to understand the annotations.

Someday they might reappear in proper form, better researched, with citations and so on like the academic endeavor they should have been in the first place, but I don’t see this happening in the near future. I’m still burned out on this topic, at least from a scholarly perspective, and the annotations seem to belong to someone else, who had ambitions I’m not sure exist anymore.

11] Perhaps an error for ‘soak it to them’ (= ‘sock it to them’). OED cites Wodehouse usage in Their Mutual Child and Laughing Gas. 

Thank you for the submissions, Barmy! Could you specify which annotations you are referring to?

If it’s any easier, you can also send questions or comments through the askbox.

Thanks for keeping up with the updating of the Leave It to Psmith annotations! I hope they were interesting.

For now, I am going back to putting annotations on hold. Not for the same reason as the last hiatus, but because I am in the middle of working on the Psmith thesis, which is very demanding work. The thesis will be finished by February 15, so we might be able to look forward to annotations in the spring. But I can’t promise anything definitely at this point.

If/when the annotations continue, what would you like to see? Would you like a revisitation of something previously done (it’s been years, and most of it could stand to be updated), or something new? Or Something New?