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We live in the eternal future. Eastasia has always been at war with Eurasia.

Once upon a time, one of the reasons we valued literature is that it broadened our horizons. It was a window into a different time and place, a different culture, etc. That is rapidly becoming wrongthink.

P.G. Wodehouse now joins Dr. Seuss, Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl ... and how many others? So far.

Buy physical media, folks, classic movies as well as books.

I actually have a constructive suggestion to make. Any of you who know a congresscritter or two, please pass it along. It would require legislation, but we should require two things:

(1) Any publisher who censors an original work should be required to state this prominently, in large type, on the cover of any book so altered, or at the beginning and end of all movies. A tiny disclaimer buried in the fineprint or deep in the movie credits isn't enough. And the public notification should provide the address to a website on which, by law, the entity altering the original would be required to maintain a fully indexed, side-by-side comparison of all changes.

(2) Secondly, and even more importantly because it would be automatic and self-enforcing, we should then immediately end all copyright protections for all works of literature as well as all movies that have been bowdlerized by the current copyright owners. Their copyright would be deemed to extend only to their current censored version. They would be deemed to have abandoned the rights to the original, which would enter into the public domain.

Were this to happen, I'd love to become a shareholder of Samizdat Publications, a firm dedicated to republishing the uncensored originals.

This makes my head hurt. The charm of P.G. Wodehouse is his bemusing and charming style that uniquely British way of being whimsical, succinct and dead on point all at the same time. A few other share this style such as C. Northcote Parkinson of Parkinson's law fame but also an historian of the Royal Navy and other things, such as being appointed the Raffles Professor of History at the new University of Malaya in Singapore.

A third such writer was John Mortimer of Rumpole of the Old Bailey fame.

I can't imagine the stuck up leftist grad-grind who thinks himself competent to edit one word of such luminaries of English style. They can only dull and tranish it and once the charm is gone no one will want to read a word of it.