Doublespeak

Holi and all the consequent celebrations always bring to mind the doublespeak that leaves me dumbfounded and floundering like a landed fish

Bassington - Bassingtons

"Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons"

Stephen Fry says, "If you are immune to writing of this kind, then you are fit, to use one of Wodehouse's favourite Shakespearean quotations, only for treasons, stratagems and spoils. You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Like Jeeves Wodehouse stands alone and analysis, ultimately, is useless."

3 1/2 hours waiting in probably one of the loudest, most crude, aggressive and obnoxious(:-) of environments...Delhi airport. The airport book store is spotted. "What Ho! The best of Wodehouse" is purchased. The airport, denizens and irritants dissolve as if they never existed. Laughter ensues causing much bemusement to those around me.