January 2012
“As I considered his lack of response, I’m afraid to say I felt the old crushing ennui descend, and, before I quite knew what I was about, I’d swung a hatchet at him. When no rejoinder from him was forthcoming, I did so again, until his neck cracked like that of an especially recalcitrant fox, and, not to put too fine a point on it, before time’s winged chariot had covered much more ground I found I’d managed to murder the fellow in what you might, were you of a judicial persuasion, describe as cold blood.”
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Fans of Wodehouse who have read Ellis’s American Psycho, rejoice: P. G. Wodehouse’s rewrite of American Psycho.
I could read the whole book like this. Pity it’s just an excerpt. (And no, it wasn’t rewritten by the actual P.G. Wodehouse, but it’s a well-done copy of his style.)
