Plum Style
Just as (per Laforgue) the secret heart of milk is blackness, so the secret heart of P. G. Wodehouse is cliché. Never has a writer played with hollow language to such profit as he, skirted it so narrowly, worked the inertia of pop slang into a style as fresh now as the day it was written.
And, like milk, there is no trace of the “secret heart” in the final product: Wodehouse is devoid of cliché.
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