✍ Scribed by Saki
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Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro produced a prodigious body of fiction, plays, and other writing under the pen name Saki. The novella *The Unbearable Bassington* follows the travails of Comus Bassington, a playboy and ne'er-do-well who is ultimately sent away to the British Colonies by his long-
On a écrit que, pour mieux savourer l'humour désopilant des nouvelles de Saki il faut commencer par lire son roman L'Insupportable Bassington. C'est, nous prévient l'auteur, une histoire qui n'a pas de morale ; celle d'une femme, Francesca Bassington qui, si on l'avait priée de décrire son âme, aura
It's unbearable . . . The bird's perch is swinging to and fro and hitting me on the nose. I can see my eye in its little mirror. Unbearably weird . . . You have the foulest feet ever. There are flies for lunch. A goat swallows your opal. And you have lived before.
Life at the top is lonely... But so is being in unrequited lust with a rock star.