Freeman, December 1st, 2004
Ambrose Bierce packed a pistol when he walked the streets of San Francisco. As a long-time editor and writer there, he made many enemies through the pungency of his pen. So he wisely carried a revolver in case of retaliation. He backed up that prudence with a reputation carried from the War Between the States that he was a crack shot.
Bierce's range of verbal targets ran beyond the local to the universal. His habit was to dissect the illusions and vanities of human beliefs and behaviors and expose them to ridicule. He wrote essays, poems, and short stories so prolifically that his collected w...
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