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- Roald Dahl: John Collier, who wrote this story, is surely one of the wittiest, most subtle writers of our time. He has produced a multitude of short stories, three novels, and many fine film scripts. When Collier writes fiction, he is totally outrageous. Consider, for example, a novel called "His Monkey Wife," which is all about a female chimpanzee who falls in love with and eventually marries an undistinguished colonial schoolmaster. If that isn't outrageous, I don't know what is. Here then is another equally outrageous Collier story.