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# Thursday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/31773/
- Published: 2014-02-27T06:10:59.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-27T06:10:59.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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A great passage from *The Freeman Book*. It's from a review-essay of the *Letters of Ambrose Bierce*, by Van Wyck Brooks:

> San Francisco, his home for a quarter of a century, he describes as “the paradise of ignorance, anarchy and general yellowness. . . . It needs,” he remarks elsewhere, “another quake, another whiff of fire, and–more than all else–a steady trade wind of grapeshot.” It was this latter–grapeshot is just the right word–that Bierce himself poured into that “moral penal colony,” the worst, as he avers, “of all the Sodoms and Gomorrahs in our modern world”; and his collection of satirical epigrams shows us how much he detested it.

Both perceptive and prescient, that Bierce.