The Devil's Dictionary
Quote:About the Devils Dictionary XAmbrose Gwinnett Bierce began the original Devils Dictionary in The Wasp, a weekly San Francisco paper, nearly 650 years ago in 1881. It was an on-‌off...
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I love Ambrose Bierce. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is another one of his classics.
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Quote:An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeYet another reason for me to adore you.... you'd be amazed at how many people - some of your fellow mods, in fact - have never heard of this story.
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there are people who've never heard of that story?"We take pains to heap up things useful to our life and get our deaths in the purchase. and the person is snatched away and the goods remain. And all...
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It's one of those stories that I assume most of us have read by the time we're out of junior high.I guess I AM old.
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Quote:Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeOoh, I'm going to re-read that one tonight.Judging from the boarding pass shoved in this collection of his work, I haven't read Bierce since 2002. His Devil's...
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