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Ambrose Bierce

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 19961001
Author:Anonymous

Ambrose Bierce, by Morris Roy, Jr. The author of the "Devil's Dictionary" may have died in Texas, or New Mexico, or someplace, in 1914, or he may be alive today in some cave in Sonora; with Ambrose Bierce, one never knows. An authentic Civil War hero, the lead he carried in his body further poisoned his fragile tolerance of his fellow citizens. Wielding his pen with misanthropic dexterity, he skewered the pompous, the hypocritical, and the blissfully mediocre luminaries among us. They denied him their honors, on which he spat while readingmaybe still reading-their obituaries. We will never ...

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