Thank you so much for this! Saki is onenof my favorite writers. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ SVREDNI VASHTAR is my very favorite of his stories. ..... Just checked outbyour channel and subscribed. Very nice presentation.
Before your biography here, I knew Saki only as a name in the canon of early 20thC British authors. I am now determined to read some of his works. Many thanks!
I found this very interesting, but for the record H H Munro has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, which makes the circumstances of his death perhaps even more cruel.
His charming stories may have been a way to manage his shadows over his homosexuality, ‘hiding in plain sight’ as it were. There was certainly a tortured side to him. It has even been postulated that his service on the Western Front (his insouciant brushes with danger) were a subconscious (or conscious) way out. There is something in his stories that seems to set this up, as if they are just the frill hiding a deeper context. Apparently he lost his upper teeth in later life and he grew a moustache to hide this. I mean, there was only one way out…
It s a throwaway line in a Christopher Hitchens essay (‘Saki’, The Atlantic 2008): ‘In November 1916 near the village of Beaumont-Hamel on the river Somme, he found what it is quite thinkable he had been looking for all along.’ Strangely moving, in particular as Hitchens himself is now also dead.
Wonderfully informative highlights of one of the top five greatest satirical and comedic authors of all time. Enjoyed the quick pace chock-full of germain tidbits that improve one's appreciation for Saki's work. (Please, though, tell us what demon possessed you to record during a time when the traffic interfered obnoxiously in your superb presentation? Sunday morning at 6 am would have crowned your video, instead your choice of time to stand among noisy traffic diminished the quality remarkably. Please re-recorded it.)
Thank you so much for this! Saki is onenof my favorite writers. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ SVREDNI VASHTAR is my very favorite of his stories. ..... Just checked outbyour channel and subscribed. Very nice presentation.
I see
If he can have Saki, then I should have Origami as my nickname !! 😋
Ha ha
Before your biography here, I knew Saki only as a name in the canon of early 20thC British authors. I am now determined to read some of his works. Many thanks!
As a schoolboy I was told by an older boy he was reading Saki. I assumed it to be Eton street slang for someone sarcastic.
@@GeorgeFromIrelandReflections Great!! (I've always recognised the term 'sarky', too.)
@@williamevans9426 I see
Snarky was Saki
I found this very interesting, but for the record H H Munro has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, which makes the circumstances of his death perhaps even more cruel.
I did not know that
His charming stories may have been a way to manage his shadows over his homosexuality, ‘hiding in plain sight’ as it were. There was certainly a tortured side to him. It has even been postulated that his service on the Western Front (his insouciant brushes with danger) were a subconscious (or conscious) way out. There is something in his stories that seems to set this up, as if they are just the frill hiding a deeper context. Apparently he lost his upper teeth in later life and he grew a moustache to hide this. I mean, there was only one way out…
I did not know of this theory
It s a throwaway line in a Christopher Hitchens essay (‘Saki’, The Atlantic 2008): ‘In November 1916 near the village of Beaumont-Hamel on the river Somme, he found what it is quite thinkable he had been looking for all along.’ Strangely moving, in particular as Hitchens himself is now also dead.
What has he been looking for?@@WM37980
…easeful Death!
Wonderfully informative highlights of one of the top five greatest satirical and comedic authors of all time. Enjoyed the quick pace chock-full of germain tidbits that improve one's appreciation for Saki's work. (Please, though, tell us what demon possessed you to record during a time when the traffic interfered obnoxiously in your superb presentation? Sunday morning at 6 am would have crowned your video, instead your choice of time to stand among noisy traffic diminished the quality remarkably. Please re-recorded it.)
Ta muchly. Happened to be passing when a thought came to my head to do the video
Looking well!
I am
Saki, so nothing to do with the Japanese drink? 🧐
No
I did read a short story or two by Saki, who I thought was a woman.
No
Perhaps Mr. H. H. Munro was also a tad confused on the same issue as you.