Morning roundup …

… CS Lewis: An unseen essay on truth and fiction | Books | theguardian.com.

Aristotle was right. Poetry presents οια αν γενοιτο, things that might be – it recombines elements which belong to the real, and to appreciate poetry involves at every moment a knowledge of those elements and therefore of the real.

… Through the Master's Eye — Joel Grey's Book 'The Billboard Papers' Captures the Impermanence of All Things, Us Included.

 Mr. Grey prefers the kind of billboards that are synonymous with decay—those in the process of shedding their skins like a snake, that might be overlooked as garbage, that fray and tear to reveal previous generations of posters beneath.

… The “Real” Wooster, B.

The first principle in reading Wodehouse – and a fortiori Faulks – is that you must know ancient lore, Scripture, feudalism, English history, modern philosophers from at least Kant to Schopenhauer, the names of the finer port wines (Warre 1885), and the proper dress of ladies and gentlemen – “Damn it, Jeeves, there are times when the question of the appropriate dress is simply not on the agenda.’ ‘I have yet to encounter one, sir.’”

(Hat tip, Dave Lull.)