vir·tu·o·sic

Looking for a lighter time, I recently read and finished 'Gallahad at Blandings' by P.G. Wodehouse - you know, the British author with a unique sense of humour. Needless to say, it was very funny and there were places where I burst out laughing.

An excerpt from this book is below. This is about a barmaid who has just witnessed somebody stealing something. Wodehouse writes her startled cry, instead of stating it as a fact, in so many words as:

She was, accordingly, deprived of speech. Then, her vocal cords in mid-season form again, she expressed her concern and agitation with a EEEEEEEEEEE!! which probably made itself heard and excited interest in many a distant parish.

Well, this sort of exaggeration is what I find comic about his writings. And, his books are rife in these exaggerations.

If you like this kind of humour, you'll love Wodehouse, or, as Wodehouse would say, "you'll find the taste of humour agreeable to your senses"