American short story writer, journalist, poet.
- Civil War veteran
- author of a very famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- time and place of death unknown; last heard from in Mexico, December 1913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
- oh, and of course, the often-quoted _The Devil's Dictionary_ (originally called _The Cynic's Word Book_) -- cynical, sometimes amusing, definitions of
ordinary words
"
LANGUAGE: the music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
DICTIONARY: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful book. "
Ar an séú lá is fiche de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Ross Clark:
> American short story writer, journalist, poet.
> - Civil War veteran
> - author of a very famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
> - time and place of death unknown; last heard from in Mexico, December 1913
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge
>
> - oh, and of course, the often-quoted _The Devil's Dictionary_ (originally
> called _The Cynic's Word Book_) -- cynical, sometimes amusing, definitions of
> ordinary words
>
> "
> LANGUAGE: the music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's
> treasure.
> DICTIONARY: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a
> language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a
> most useful book. "
“He was of entirely English ancestry: all of his forebears came to North America between 1620 and 1640 as part of the Great Puritan Migration.[17] He often wrote critically of "Puritan values" and people who "made a fuss" about genealogy.[18] He was the tenth of thirteen children, [...]”
Not a fertility rate seen much in England at the moment!
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