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" ‘Oh, I say, did you say Wodehouse helped you lose weight?’‘Yes.’‘Wodehouse as in P.G.?‘Yes.’‘The writer or the dietician?’‘The writer, you ass! He invented the Swedish Exercises, you know. And the Larsen E.’‘And you did them?’‘No, I just read about them.’A couple of years back, I went to a new doctor with my annual health check-up reports. Again, all the results seemed fine. I was eating healthy, staying active, walking twice a day. Balancing the halo on my head, I flashed a smile at him.&nbsp;“You need to lose about 15 kg,” he said. “Put in more exercise.”“But Doctor, I doubt I can do more than this. I’ve had multiple fractures on both my legs some years back.”Like most normal people, this is when he should have said, ‘What!’ and I would have told him about my near-fatal road accident in an unquivering voice. But he did not raise an eyebrow. “Too long ago. You better get serious about exercise and consult a nutritionist if you want to stay fit.”Also read: Reading Sally Rooney as a millennial Indian womanSome bedside manner, humph!But not one to bear grudges, I moved on. I would look up some Swedish Exercises, I thought, having caught a page of Something New while sitting in the waiting room earlier. But, of course, I’m always equipped with a Wodehouse—one never knows when one may need a smile.&nbsp;In this first Blandings Castle book, the hero Ashe Marson is a strapping young man who&nbsp;does the Larsen Exercises in the open, unmindful of the audience, till one day, just as he ‘unscrambled himself and resumed a normal posture’, the heroine of the book bursts into musical laughter. Like the rest of ‘Plum’ Wodehouse’s work, this has been a balm to my throbbing head and broken bones. Wodehouse is mild sunshine on a cold day, cool breeze on a hot day, and a gentle sprinkling of life lessons every day. &nbsp;More importantly, however, it proved to be an inspiration.&nbsp;"
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