I said before that what Jerry Garcia did in the flesh, P.G. Wodehouse did on paper first. They were both tremendous workhorses and absolute masters of their craft, and they both created parallel worlds halfway between heaven and earth, populated with eccentric characters and suffused with Sweetness and Light (in Matthew Arnold's famous phrase), where no one's problems were too serious. Jerry was named after composer Jerome Kern, he is pictured here on the far right, Wodehouse is second from the left. I just remembered this from a Wodehouse biography I read years ago. I never read any biographies of statesmen, unless you count Francis Bacon, I only read biographies of writers and artists. Andrew Delbanco has a good one on Melville, who, remember, was Garcia's previous incarnation, and had an interesting life.
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