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NS Oktober 2019 P.G. Wodehouse Society’s nieuwsblad NOTHING SERIOUS Jaargang 36 nummer 3 oktober 2019 WESTMINSTER ABBEY – 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 P.G. WODEHOUSE WORDT GEËERD MET EEN GEDENKSTEEN In deze NOTHING SERIOUS : Het speciale programma voor 12 oktober 2019, Een Wodehouse bibliotheek in Zweden, een schrijvende kloosterling uit Australië, pruimentaart, de Boekenkast van John Kroes, een boekbespreking, Impressies vanuit Szmulewicz. En nog veel meer…… Nothing Serious, oktober 2019 Het Programma voor 12 oktober De bijeenkomst is om 13.00 uur in Restaurant Szmulewicz, Bakkersstraat 12, 1017 CW Amsterdam Het thema van deze speciale vergadering is: “Wodehouse en andere Grote Schrijvers in Westminster Abbey” . Oproep aan de leden: zoek in de werken van Wodehouse naar vermeldingen, citaten of referenties van Grote Schrijvers die naast Wodehouse in de Westminster Abbey herdacht worden. Denk aan: Chaucer, Kipling, Browning, Dickens, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Byron, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, etc. Lees je vondst voor tijdens de vergadering Verder in willekeurige volgorde Opening en mededelingen van het bestuur Bezoek Tony Ring Een Favoriet Fragment Het 3 de Wodehouse Filmfestival Een bijzondere onderscheiding Eggs, Beans and Crumpets Presentpremie DE VOLGENDE BIJEENKOMST IS OP ZATERDAG 15 FEBRUARI 2020 kopijdatum Nothing Serious: 5 januari, 17 mei en 20 september 2020 NOTHING SERIOUS ISSN 1382-0265 verschijnt in februari, mei en oktober. Redactie: Herman van Riel, Helkantsedijk 24, 4927 RJ Hooge Zwaluwe [email protected], 0162 687232 De P.G. Wodehouse Society is officieel opgericht op 27 november 1981 en staat ingeschreven bij de KvK te Amsterdam onder nummer 40534603. De doelstelling van de vereniging is het werk van de schrijver P.G. Wodehouse onder de aandacht te blijven brengen van lezers en het te bewaren voor het nageslacht. Het lidmaatschap kost (vanaf 2017) 25 euro per jaar, voor jeugdleden (t/m 18 jaar) 5 euro per jaar. Eenmalig inschrijfgeld ad 10 euro. Bankrekening IBAN NL17INGB0008558315 t.n.v. P.G. Wodehouse Society. De leden komen in 2019 op 15 februari, 13 juni en 17 oktober vanaf 13.00 uur samen. Het bestuur bestaat uit Peter Nieuwenhuizen (voorzitter), Elsbeth Westerman (penningmeester), Marcel Gijbels (secretaris, [email protected]), Herman van Riel (redacteur Nothing Serious) en Tony Roodnat (commissaris bijzondere activiteiten) wodehouse-society.nl 2 Nothing Serious, oktober 2019 SALAMANDERS , SALAMANDERS EN NOG EENS SALAMANDERS : IMPRESSIES VANUIT SZMULEWICZ , 15 JUNI 2019 De presentielijst werd door onderstaande personen getekend: Dick Vleeskruijer, Marieke Mooij-Vleeskruijer, Willem Pekelder, Jelle Caro, Tense Bilgoe, Josepha Olsthoorn, Hans Jung, Jos Boer, Marjan de Vreij, Carel Coops (5), Leonard Beuger, Hans Muller, Peter Glas, Erik van Munster, Lars van Eesteren, Alex van Zundert, Wim van Es, Jannes Koster, Wil Brouwer, Herman van Riel, Peter Nieuwenhuizen, John Kroes, Vikas Sonak, Peter Uges, Renze Hasper, Elsbeth Westerman, Marcel Gijbels. Afmeldingen ontvingen wij van: Ole van Luyn, Ronald Duk, Thijs de Jong, Jan Paul Kruimel, Tony Roodnat, Gera Wemmenhove, Johan Buiskool, Anton Weda, Dolf Weverink, Ans Olie, Wiesje Foppen, Hans Sprokkreeff, Anne-Sophie Andela, Els Huisman, Pjottr Hatzmann, Lucas Viruly, Rob Sander, Jan Jaap Omvlee. Als gast was aanwezig: Serg é Bogaerts (herpetoloog). Ons bestuur kan zeker geen gebrek aan doortastendheid worden verweten: als reactie op een suggestie tijdens de vorige bijeenkomst kregen wij bij binnenkomst in het gezellige Szmulewicz een badge waarop een naamkaartje kon worden bevestigd. Handig voor nieuwkomers, maar zeker ook voor leden die niet altijd de naam bij het bekende gezicht paraat hebben. Het was dan ook al snel een ware kakofonie van stemmen van leden die met elkaar bijpraatten. Om 13:35 heette voorzitter Peter Nieuwenhuizen ons allen welkom en in het bijzonder Carel Coops, lid nr. 5. Nadat hij in een boekenkast 2 Wodehouse titels aantrof, een daarvan THE HEART OF A GOOF , bleef hij Wodehouse lezen en herlezen. In 1989 kwam hij na een leven als stuurman aan wal, las in de krant over de PGWS in Mulliner's en werd lid. Verder werd Sergé Bogaerts voorgesteld, in 2014 de winnaar van de Lendersprijs, die jaarlijks wordt uitgereikt aan iemand die een grote bijdrage heeft geleverd aan de bescherming van reptielen, amfibieën en/of vissen. In ons geval zijn wij vanwege de connectie met Gussie Fink-Nottle met name geïnteresseerd in watersalamanders. Zijn kennis hierover bleek schier onuitputtelijk. In het kader van de Algemene verordening gegevensbescherming (AVG) werden leden die niet - of slechts met een zwart balkje over de ogen - op foto's in NOTHING SERIOUS afgebeeld wensen te worden, verzocht dit door te geven aan onze redacteur Herman. Secretaris Marcel las de afmeldingen voor, wegens onder meer verhuizing, jaarclub, kleinkinderen, oude tante, zoon, vakantie en orkestrepetitie. Met een kaarsje herdachten wij onze helaas overleden oud-voorzitter Jelle Otten. Peter memoreerde het vele wat hij voor ons genootschap gedaan heeft. Hoogstwaarschijnlijk op 20 september 2019 zal er een gedenkteken aan P.G. Wodehouse worden geplaatst in Westminster Abbey. Het zal helaas een besloten 3 Nothing Serious, oktober 2019 bijeenkomst zijn, dat wil zeggen uitsluitend voor leden van PGWS UK die een plaats gereserveerd hebben. In oktober zal ons erelid Tony Ring bij onze bijeenkomst aanwezig zijn. Hans Jung en Jelle Caro gaven een levendig verslag van hun deelname aan de Arenberg Trophy. 1 Alleen al de rit ernaartoe - door storm en regen in een weliswaar prachtige, maar oude auto - was een avontuur. Dank zij de TomTom arriveerden zij tijdig in Luik. Bij aanvang van de rally werden zij uitgezwaaid door de Schepen van Luik. Een gevaarlijke tocht naar en door diverse kastelen c.q. ruïnes volgde. Na afloop van de eerste dag werden zij, na urenlang champagne drinken, onthaald op een copieuze maaltijd. Dag twee was er ook weer een van noeste arbeid, eveneens afgesloten met veel champagne. Aangezien de chauffeur zo verstandig was zich te beperken tot glazen gevuld met water, zijn zij uiteindelijk toch veilig thuisgekomen. De salamander stond centraal tijdens de bijeenkomst. Alex startte met een verhaal over een ritueel bij Belgische corpora dat geïnspireerd is door de salamander. Het is een heildronk, gevolgd door een ad fundum. Sergé vertelde over een Amerikaanse student die overleed nadat hij gedwongen werd om water te drinken waarin een (giftige) salamander gezwommen had. De leden was in de NOTHING SERIOUS gevraagd om fragmenten te zoeken in de boeken van Wodehouse waarin de salamander figureerde. Niet geheel verrassend was de geweldige scène uit RIGHT HO, JEEVES waarin Gussie sprak over de hofmakerij van de mannelijke salamander door meerdere aanwezigen gekozen. Leonard las hem voor uit een Nederlandse vertaling. Die heb ik niet. Hieronder een stukje van de Engelse tekst: [...] Colour does make a difference. Look at newts. During the courting season the male newt is brilliantly coloured. It helps him a lot." "But you aren't a male newt." "I wish I were. Do you know how a male newt proposes, Bertie? He just stands in front of the female newt vibrating his tail and bending his body in a semi-circle. I could do that on my head. No, you wouldn't find me grousing if I were a male newt." "But if you were a male newt, Madeline Bassett wouldn't look at you. Not with the eye of love, I mean." "She would, if she were a female newt." "But she isn't a female newt." "No, but suppose she was." "Well. if she was, you wouldn't be in love with her." "Yes, I would, if I were a male newt." A slight throbbing about the temples told me that this discussion had reached saturation point. 1 De Arenberg Trophy is een oldtimer rally georganiseerd door The Drones Club of Belgium, onder de bescherming van Z.D.H. de hertog van Arenberg en Aarschot. Er wordt een parcours afgelegd dat domeinen verbindt die eertijds toebehoorden aan het huis van Arenberg of aan andere Europese adellijke families. 4 Nothing Serious, oktober 2019 Sergé toonde een boek waarin de paringsdans van the great crested newt was afgebeeld, waaruit bleek dat Wodehouse zijn huiswerk had gedaan alvorens over het liefdesleven van salamanders te schrijven. Tense las vervolgens het stukje voor uit BRAVO , JEEVES (RIGHT HO, JEEVES ) waarin Gussie van plan is Madeline Bassett een huwelijksaanzoek te doen, maar uit zenuwachtigheid alleen over salamanders - in sickness and in health - blijft praten . "Bad, Jeeves." "Yes, sir." "And how long did this nuisance continue?" "For some not inconsiderable time, I gather, sir. According to Mr. Fink-Nottle, he supplied Miss Bassett with very full and complete information not only with respect to the common newt, but also the crested and palmated varieties. He described to her how newts, during the breeding season, live in the water, subsisting upon tadpoles, insect larvae, and crustaceans; how, later, they make their way to the land and eat slugs and worms; and how the newly born newt has three pairs of long, plumlike, external gills. And he was just observing that newts differ from salamanders in the shape of the tail, which is compressed, and that a marked sexual dimorphism prevails in most species, when the young lady rose and said that she thought she would go back to the house." "And then——" "She went, sir." En ook Dick, Marieke en Josepha lazen een fragment voor uit RIGHT HO, JEEVES , waarin Jeeves aan Bertie vertelt dat Gussie enkele malen een bezoek aan hun Londense flat gebracht heeft . "Well, it's the most extraordinary thing. It must be five years since he was in London. He makes no secret of the fact that the place gives him the pip. Until now, he has always stayed glued to the country, completely surrounded by newts." "Sir?" "Newts, Jeeves. Mr. Fink-Nottle has a strong newt complex. You must have heard of newts. Those little sort of lizard things that charge about in ponds." "Oh, yes, sir.
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