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		dash2 on June 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Work Hard 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 on June 29, 2021 [–]

What is that about?

dash2 on June 29, 2021 | | [–]

The joke is Jeeves' very solemn quotation of a famous Romantic poem.

FoldMorePaper on June 29, 2021 | | [–]

A reference to a Keats poem, apparently? <https://poets.org/poem/autumn>

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