(urth) PEACE: the source story

brunians at brunians.org brunians at brunians.org
Wed Jun 10 10:32:41 PDT 2009


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.



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> 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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