ambrose bierce
i’m not typically a fan of the more hard-lit oriented stuff from the new york review of books. frankly, i find a lot of their hard-lit a bit on the tedious and pretentious side of things. unfortunately, with the ny review of books, i have this tendency to simply tune some of that out for the stuff that is more immediately interesting. i wonder how much fun stuff i might have missed because it had
this article about ambrose bierce hardly falls in the hard-lit domain and to that end, i enjoyed it immensely. if you’ve enjoyed the devil’s dictionary in any form, i’m pretty sure the read is worth your time.
if for no other reason than to check out snarky little nuggets like this …
Mr. Parton says Mrs. Stowe has lived a life of heroic virtue. With her face, a life of virtue is no very difficult matter. When Nature conferred upon her her peculiar charms, we imagine the operation might have been called, “Chastity made easy.”