Hello and welcome back to Close Reeds here on the SIRC Institute podcast Network.

I am David Kern and this being Close Reads.

I am joined by two people who like Birdie Wooster are far from being gruntled, Angelina

Stanford and Tim McIntosh.

How's it going, Angelina, Tim? I did not know where this Bernie Worcester comparison was going to go.

And I kind of held my breath.

I was thinking, tread lightly, David, tread lightly.

Although I think it might have been Jeeves.

I think it might have been Jeeves that was far from being gruntled, as I recall.

Hey, is that a word?

Did anybody look that up?

I did not.

But he's always doing that little play, you know.

Yeah.

He always breaks up compound, whereas I love it.

It was, it is now officially in my lexicon. I will say that. Um, so we're here to

talk about PG Woodhouse's the code of the Woosters. Uh, we are here to start a new book.

Do you, how do you, how do you feel we're starting a new book guys it just like in principle how do I

feel about starting new books how do you feel about when we start a new book on close

reads in particular it's kind of like we it takes a little bit to start the momentum yeah do you feel

yeah do you feel hesitant as we're starting?

Do you feel like there's just an uncontrollable excess of energy and thought going through your brain that is, if you don't, we don't hurry up and get the show started, then you're going to, you know, you're going to crash and burn.

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