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Originally Posted by lemit
Have you read Ambrose Bierce?
I have, in my attempt to chart the history of American humor. I love his style, his vitriol, his unrelenting wit, and that mystery. He provides a great example of disaffection and violence funneled into language.
Are you an unknown child of his, born in Mexico some time after the war? Were he and Judge Crater friends?
Thanks for the quote.
--lemit
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i have read his Devil's Dictionary, as well as the occasional biographical accounts. i have only the family records to accord my appearance on this rock, and assuming they have not concealed some facts to protect some innocents or to honor some oath to secrecy that is supposed to protect innocents, then no, i was not born in mexico.
there is some talk in my family, and i have some geneologists on this to confirm or deny the fact, that johnny appleseed is my cousin. while john
was disaffected, he was prone to kindness & reclusion and never wrote a whit that i am aware of.
i have never had the pleasure of an introduction to Crater. is he still dead?
