ookami
November 18, 2010, 08:08 AM
You all should read Saki (Hector Hugh Munro)… that’s my statement. Take it or leave!
It’s excellent for practicing English because the stories Saki wrote are very short (best for learners) with common vocabulary and simple gramatic. But it’s contain is excellent, exuberant.
http://estaticos01.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2009/12/21/1261405088_extras_ladillos_2_0.jpg
If you read him, tell me what you think. If you didn’t read hi yet, fush fush!
Borges talking about Saki: «Con una suerte de pudor, Saki da un tono de trivialidad a relatos cuya íntima trama es amarga y cruel. Esa delicadeza, esa levedad, esa ausencia de énfasis puede recordar las deliciosas comedias de Wilde».
-Where can I find Saki’s stories?
-Go to your nearer book store or just write “saki stories” in a browser, etc (http://haytom.us/).. etc (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Saki)
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime than they ever would to a broken heart.
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It’s excellent for practicing English because the stories Saki wrote are very short (best for learners) with common vocabulary and simple gramatic. But it’s contain is excellent, exuberant.
http://estaticos01.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2009/12/21/1261405088_extras_ladillos_2_0.jpg
If you read him, tell me what you think. If you didn’t read hi yet, fush fush!
Borges talking about Saki: «Con una suerte de pudor, Saki da un tono de trivialidad a relatos cuya íntima trama es amarga y cruel. Esa delicadeza, esa levedad, esa ausencia de énfasis puede recordar las deliciosas comedias de Wilde».
-Where can I find Saki’s stories?
-Go to your nearer book store or just write “saki stories” in a browser, etc (http://haytom.us/).. etc (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Saki)
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People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Oysters are more beautiful than any religion . . . there's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.
People yield more consideration to a mutilated mealtime than they ever would to a broken heart.
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