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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."



What is that about?


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


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




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