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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 11:01:07 GMT -5
Happy birthday to the great journalist, poet and short-story writer Ambrose Bierce, one of my literary heroes for many reasons, one of which is his plain-spoken narrative style, which I guess I would call Authentic American. Coincidentally, he lived in a house on D.C.'s Logan Circle just six doors from mine. americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierce |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2019 11:06:16 GMT -5
He’s great, but I actually prefer Damon Runyon.
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Post by billhammond on Jun 24, 2019 11:19:20 GMT -5
I prefer Raymond Onion.
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Post by millring on Jun 24, 2019 11:31:37 GMT -5
I like Vidalias.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 11:42:57 GMT -5
My gosh, I'm impressed you guys are familiar with all those people.
Btw, there is much to be said for Amon Bunyon.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jun 24, 2019 11:45:06 GMT -5
Apparently a lot of Groucho/Chico fans here.
Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?
Baravelli: Aw, no! You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It's the name of a fish.
Wagstaff: Is it Mary?
Baravelli: Ha-ha. That's-a no fish.
Wagstaff: She isn't, well, she drinks like one. Let me see. Is it sturgeon?
Baravelli: Hey you crazy! Sturgeon, he's a doctor cuts you open when-a you sick. Now I give you one more chance.
Wagstaff: I got it! Haddock!
Baravelli: That's-a funny. I gotta haddock, too.
Wagstaff: What do you take for a haddock?
Baravelli: Well-a, sometimes I take-a aspirin, sometimes I take-a calomel.
Wagstaff: Say, I'd walk a mile for a calomel.
Baravelli: You mean chocolate calomel. I like that too, but you no guess it.
--Horse Feathers
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Post by millring on Jun 24, 2019 11:57:13 GMT -5
Btw, there is much to be said for Amon Bunyon. ...and his big blue ox. |
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 12:10:18 GMT -5
Suspicious mind that I have, I always wondered why a big guy who worked alone in the remote forest called his ox "Babe."
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Jun 24, 2019 12:36:47 GMT -5
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Post by amanajoe on Jun 24, 2019 13:12:37 GMT -5
How do you know your dealing with an English major when your in public? Because he says, “Would you like an order of French fries with your hamburger?”.
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Post by billhammond on Jun 24, 2019 13:14:41 GMT -5
How do you know your you're dealing with an English major when your you're in public? Because he says, “Would you like an order of French fries with your hamburger?”. |
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Post by amanajoe on Jun 24, 2019 13:26:55 GMT -5
Damn iPad auto correct. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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Post by amanajoe on Jun 24, 2019 13:33:27 GMT -5
Or maybe that was on purpose. Just to make you wish these sites had a red pen function!
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Post by billhammond on Jun 24, 2019 13:35:00 GMT -5
Or maybe that was on purpose. Just to make you wish these sites had a red pen function! Anyway, you want fries or not? |
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 24, 2019 13:36:21 GMT -5
Damn iPad auto correct. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Your tough luck to run into one English major who doesn't work at Burger King. |
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Post by billhammond on Jun 24, 2019 13:36:28 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jun 24, 2019 14:08:38 GMT -5
I have taken an interest in some American authors of the past. I have not read, Bierce but have just now downloaded one of his stories from Gutenberg.
I am currently reading "An American Tragedy" by Hoosier author Theodore Dreiser.
Note to LJ: So far no mention of squirrels, but Dreiser didn't set the book in Indiana.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jun 24, 2019 14:10:38 GMT -5
How do you know your dealing with an English major when your in public? Because he says, “Would you like an order of French fries with your hamburger?”. So you haven't met my wife. . . . |
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Post by drlj on Jun 24, 2019 14:33:41 GMT -5
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. One of my favorites both in print and as an episode of The Twilight Zone.
Bierce once said a body snatcher was one who supplied the young physician with that with which old physicians supplied the undertaker.
I think he served in the Indiana Volunteers during the Civil War. He probably had his fill of squirrels then.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 24, 2019 15:10:51 GMT -5
I forget which Bierce story I read, but I really liked the damned thing.
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