(urth) PEACE: the source story

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jun 10 14:07:24 PDT 2009


That is possible. Someone should ask him at some point, and we will know.

I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfe's descriptions of war and combat owed
something to Bierce.



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> I can't disagree with you.  Those were not novel ideas from Bierce.
>
> What I was suggesting was that this short story was the seed of the
> idea for Wolfe.  He always seems to mention "Oh, I got that story from
> [this or that story]."
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> These metaphysical ideas were around long before Bierce.
>>
>> Not to talk him down: Ambrose Bierce is excellent. His descriptions of
>> combat and war particularly. I don't doubt that Wolfe has read him.
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>> Actually, I was speaking specifically about the Novel _PEACE_, but, it
>>> may apply there also.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matthew King<automatthew at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Christopher
>>>> Keiser<slowalrus at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> "An Inhabitant of Carcosa", by Ambrose Bierce, is the the source
>>>>> story
>>>>> for _PEACE_.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.ambrosebierce.org/carcosa.html
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >From the first paragraph:
>>>>
>>>> "In one kind of death the spirit also dieth, and this it hath been
>>>> known to do while yet the body was in vigor for many years. Sometimes,
>>>> as is veritably attested, it dieth with the body, but after a season
>>>> is raised up again in that place where the body did decay."
>>>>
>>>> Silk died the first kind, Horn the second?
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