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He's very famous, so I don't believe I need to leave a clue...
Real name, please.
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A clue: he was British and he died in the First World War. He wrote under a pseudonym.
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Whitop
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Location: USA
Registered: June 2005
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Ha! I can't believe I found it. The clue and Google did it! Hector Hugh Munro (H. H. Munro) who wrote under the name, Saki. Google Images on Hector Hugh Munro confirmed it.
I read lots of Saki in High School. Try some at http://www.users.bigpond.com/burnside/saki.htm
It's delightful stuff.
How did you find him, Deej? That was way back when! Funny thing is I thought of a quote from him just today! Somethihng about coming back as a small Nubian boy. Now I have to find the story.
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Yup, indeed.
He's the master of the short story -- witty, biting, often macabre, and usually ending with a clever twist.
I used to have a copy of his collected works, though I seem to have lost it at the moment. As a matter of fact I was set it as a Div book when I was fifteen (Div was a subject at school, a sort of mixture of English and History and General Studies) and I've reread the stories whenever I have re-unearthed the book since.
If you haven't read any of its stories it's well worth borrowing or buying a collection. Some are quite diabolically clever. Or you can find them online, as they are presumably out of copyright now; though it's difficult to read things on a computer monitor as avidly as on a sheet of paper.
Now I come to think of it, I wonder if any of them have been adapted to film? Or could be? I think I considered adapting a couple years and years ago, but nothing much came of it.
David
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Over to you, Whitop!
Quiet around here, isn't it?
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Very quiet! If things don't shape up maybe one of us will have to start saying unthoughtful things just to stir the pot!::-)
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