Jeeves & Wooster: admittedly I’ve never read the Wodehouse text, but rather seen the exemplarary TV series starring Hugh Laurie & Stephen Fry. Still that’s a suitable grounding for extrapolating & visualising the scene here in “What if Bertie Wooster, rather than being a mere layabout, was also Batman?“.
“Enough talk about that, Jeeves. I think I’ve made it quite clear that the cape represents my bat-wings, for I am a child of the night, and so forth.”
“Could not some other form of abstraction suffice, sir?”
“Well, without the wings, I’m hardly a bat, am I? I’m sort of a black badger.”
“I understand badgers can be quite nasty in a pinch.”
“Yes, but it’s not like a great roaring badger came smashing through my window at Brinkley, is it? It was a bat. That’s an omen, Jeeves. Can’t mess about with omens, that’s bad luck.”
“Sir, a bat did not crash through your window either. You dreamt it.”
“Dream omens are still omens.”
“I concede the point.”
“Thank you, Jeeves. By the way, this is really cracking nosh.”
“I do my best, sir.”
[excellent spot there by thornae]
