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Saki Quotes and Dead Animals
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I post passages from the writings of Saki (H.H. Munro).
I also post photos of dead animals encountered on my daily walks around Philadelphia.

A head and a few wing feathers and that's it.
January 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Identification was hard due to being squashed as flat as a pancake, but it has come to my attention that this is actually a short tailed shrew.
January 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A belated Happy New Year to one and all. How auspicious that I encountered such a perfect specimen on the first day of the new year.
January 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The Bishop does not see why a man should not be a gentleman as well as a Christian. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Unrest-Cure"
January 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is probably my favorite dead animal photograph thus far.
January 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster." (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Matchmaker"
December 31, 2024 at 4:27 PM
She disapproved of early morning tea and auction bridge, of ski-ing and the two-step, of the Russian ballet and the Chelsea Arts Club ball, of the French policy in Morocco and the British policy everywhere. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "A Matter of Sentiment"
December 11, 2024 at 12:29 AM
When one lives among greyhounds one should avoid giving life-like imitations of a rabbit, unless one want's one's head snapped off. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Peace Offering"
December 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM