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  1. @novafuture Um, have you heard about the #Dionysus / #Bacchus cults? Or ritual #Saki drinking? Or beer and wine in #AncientEgypt (so important that some were buried with it)? And yes, alcohol was given to workers because the water was contaminated. The history of alcohol (and other mind-altering substances) goes back further than modern marketing hype. And yes. Everything in moderation.

  2. Glätte stoppt starken Auftritt beim ETB Essen

    Plötzlich meldete sich der Winter zurück. Für den Landesligisten 1. FC Wülfrath stand am vergangenen Dienstagabend, nach der…
    #Essen #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #"Etb" #Angesichts #FCW #Germany #Gesicht #Joscha #leistung #Nordrhein-Westfalen #Saki #Spielzeit #Weber #Wülfrath #Xiros
    europesays.com/de/741492/

  3. "This is a poor boy who has lost his way--and lost his memory. He doesn't know who he is or where he comes from," explained Van Cheele desperately, glancing apprehensively at the waif's face to see whether he was going to add inconvenient candour to his other savage propensities.

    – Saki (H. H. Munro), from “Gabriel-Ernest” (1909)

    #Saki #HHMunro #literature

  4. "He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

    ~Saki

    #Saki #Quote #Happy

  5. "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation."

    Today in 1870, Hector Hugh Munro, aka Saki, was born.

    #Quote #Saki

  6. @bookstodon

    There are a number of collections of Saki’s short stories – including BEASTS & SUPER-BEASTS and THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS – available free online via @gutenberg_org 👇

    8/8

    gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/152

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian

  7. @bookstodon

    …and “Sredni Vashtar” is read here by S. Houghton.

    You can listen to both stories in under 30 minutes. do it right now i’m very extremely serious

    7/8

    youtube.com/watch?v=YfmOlcwXSe8

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #horror #Edwardian

  8. @bookstodon

    To get an idea of Saki’s range, read “The Lumber Room” & “Sredni Vashtar”. Both stories feature small boys, domineering aunts, & revenge; one is very funny, & the other is wildly unsettling. “The Lumber Room” is in BEASTS & SUPER-BEASTS, & “Sredni Vashtar” is in THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS

    5/8

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian

  9. @bookstodon

    “There is a wild beast in your woods”

    —Greg Wagland reads Saki’s funny, awful, brilliant, appalling, queer, & hair-raising short story “Gabriel-Ernest”

    4/8

    youtube.com/watch?v=_T-bVbO9a48

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian #queer #queerwriters

  10. @bookstodon

    “Saki’s mother was killed by a cow when he was a child. If that doesn’t turn you into a writer with a morbid fascination with, and deep-seated fear of, the natural world, nothing will”

    —Naomi Alderman on Saki’s razor-sharp & merciless stories

    3/8

    theguardian.com/books/2012/sep

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian

  11. @bookstodon

    FERRETS CAN BE GODS

    “Children in Saki are often victors in the battle against authority; his stories salute their boldness but have no truck with sentiment. The children are usually nasty, brutish and short, and loved for it.”

    —Katherine Rundell on Saki, for the London Review of Books

    2/8

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n16/ka

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian

  12. “In story after story, epicene young men, difficult children, or wild beasts set out to shake up the stifling complacency around them”

    Hector Hugh Munro (1870–1916) – Saki – was born #OTD, 18 Dec, in Myanmar. Although born in the Raj & raised in England, his parents were Scots & he considered himself to be a Scot, too. Fatema Ahmed looks at his fierce, funny, & wicked fiction

    @bookstodon

    1/8

    prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture

    #Scottish #literature #Saki #shortstories #humor #humour #horror #Edwardian

  13. @bookstodon

    “I could not do violence to my conscience for anything less than ten shillings”

    —In Saki’s short story “The Boar-Pig”, a cunning little girl – called Matilda – extracts money from 2 society ladies trying to gatecrash a garden party. 🖼️ by Quentin Blake …

    Listen to “The Boar-Pig” online, read by Peter Yearsley

    2/3

    youtube.com/watch?v=vuvhSgHwJiw

    #Scottish #literature #RoaldDahl #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Saki

  14. Roald Dahl (1916–1990) was born #OTD, 13 September. A huge influence on his writing was Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, 1870–1916). Dahl wrote,

    “In all literature, [Saki] was the first to employ successfully a wildly outrageous premise in order to make a serious point. I love that. And today the best of his stories are still better than the best of just about every other writer around.”

    @bookstodon

    1/3

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n16/ka

    #Scottish #literature #RoaldDahl #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Saki

  15. #Ukraine 🇺🇦 aerial attacks on military #Saki and #Kacha airports in #Russia 🇷🇺 occupied #Crimea

    🇷🇺 drone hits on residential building in #Zaporizhzhia, 10 civilians wounded

    🇷🇺 channels reported their forces "entered" #Pokrovsk only to next day clarify it was fake

    🇺🇸 intelligence believes 🇷🇺 #Putin has significantly reduced his military goals in 🇺🇦