After 7 decades of observing humanity's talent for self-deception, Ambrose Bierce decided to inspect its talent for self-destruction. Most elderly men seek warmer climates. He sought artillery fire instead. He rode south to join Pancho Villa's revolution, a 71 year old cynic entering a land where cynicism was redundant cuz reality itself had become satire.

Then he disappeared.

#TIL #Bierce #PanchoVilla #AmbroseBierce

Nuevo audio de terror en Cuentos del bosque oscuro. Hoy, de la mano de uno de los maestros del género.

«Diagnóstico de muerte», de Ambrose Bierce

https://go.ivoox.com/rf/134705246

#cbo #cuentosbo #terror #bierce #fantasmas

"... I know, indeed, that one’s environment may be so affected by one’s personality as to yield, long afterward, an image of one’s self to the eyes of another. Doubtless the impressing personality has to be the right kind of personality as the perceiving eyes have to be the right kind of eyes–mine, for example...”

the photo reminded me of A.B. googling "Ambrose Bierce "... the right kind of eyes..." did it.
thought i'd forgotten these lines long ago. but nope.

#bierce
https://fullreads.com/literature/a-diagnosis-of-death/