ellauri062.html on line 598: Vuoden 1986 vizikirja on mulle nuori vizikirja, vain Paulin ikäinen. Siinä vanhan vizikirjan vizi 606 on enää numero 158. Vizit vähenee maailmanlopun edellä. Pedon luvulla 666 on v 1938 vizikirjassa vizi joka alkaa 'On rakautes ääretön'. Läppä läppä. Siitä seuraava on Jaska Haavion 'Anna herra tulta'. Toi neljäs versio on Ambrose "Bitter" Bierceltä, joka oli San Franciscon ilkein mies.
ellauri097.html on line 95: Mencken admired the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (he was the first writer to provide a scholarly analysis in English of Nietzsche´s views and writings) and Joseph Conrad. His humor and satire owed much to Ambrose Bierce and Mark Twain. He did much to defend Dreiser despite freely admitting his faults, including stating forthrightly that Dreiser often wrote badly and was a gullible man. Mencken also expressed his appreciation for William Graham Sumner in a 1941 collection of Sumner´s essays and regretted never having known Sumner personally. In contrast, Mencken was scathing in his criticism of the German philosopher Hans Vaihinger, whom he described as "an extremely dull author" and whose famous book Philosophy of 'Als ob' he dismissed as an unimportant "foot-note to all existing systems."
ellauri097.html on line 103: Such turns of phrase evoked the erudite cynicism and rapier sharpness of language displayed by Ambrose Bierce in his darkly-satiric The Devil's Dictionary. A noted curmudgeon, democratic in subjects attacked, Mencken savaged politics, hypocrisy, and social convention. A master of English, he was given to bombast and once disdained the lowly hot dog bun's descent into "the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster of Paris, flecks of bath sponge and atmospheric air all compact."
ellauri144.html on line 541: The Red Badge of Courage garnered widespread acclaim, what H. G. Wells called "an orgy of praise" shortly after its publication, making Crane an instant celebrity at the age of twenty-four. The novel and its author did have their initial detractors, however, including author and veteran Ambrose Bierce. Adapted several times for the screen, the novel became a bestseller. It has never been out of print and is now thought to be Crane´s most important work and a major American text.
ellauri144.html on line 542: Bierce oli toinen sotakirjailija mutta oli sentään ollut sodassa. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic.
ellauri144.html on line 544: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. His book The Devil´s Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.
ellauri144.html on line 546: A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry.
ellauri144.html on line 548: Both of Bierce´s sons died before he did. Day committed suicide after a romantic rejection (he non-fatally shot the woman of his affections along with her fiancé beforehand), and Leigh died of pneumonia related to alcoholism. Bierce separated from his wife in 1888, after discovering compromising letters to her from an admirer. They divorced in 1904. Mollie Day Bierce died the following year. Bierce was an avowed agnostic, and strongly rejected the divinity of Christ. He suffered from lifelong asthma, as well as complications from his war wounds, most notably episodes of fainting and irritability assignable to the traumatic brain injury suffered at Kennesaw Mountain. In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and was never seen again.
ellauri144.html on line 550: Kylläpä oli erinomaisia kavereita. Jos jenkit kehuvat jotakuta kuplixi voi olla lähes 110% varma että se on hanurista. Mutta tätä Biercea ize asiassa haukuskellaan aika lailla, ja niinpä se sitten onkin jonkinlainen anarkisti. Sen runoista esim Dies Irae ja Dekalogi on silkkaa rienausta. Bitter Bierce. Sen isän nimi oli Marcus Aurelius. Epigrammeja, enimmäxeen aika tylsiä kun ei enää tiedä kenestä on puhe.
ellauri144.html on line 552: Like Poe, Bierce professed to be mainly concerned with the artistry of his work, yet critics find him more intent on conveying his misanthropy and pessimism. His bare, economical style of supernatural horror is usually distinguished from the verbally lavish tales of Poe. In his lifetime, Bierce was famous as a California journalist dedicated to exposing the truth as he understood it, regardless of whose reputations were harmed by his attacks. For his sardonic wit and damning observations on the personalities and events of the day, he became known as "the wickedest man in San Francisco." Tälläisiä löytyy Ambrosen pirun raamatusta:
ellauri144.html on line 596: Bitter Bierceä haukuttiin aikanaan naturalistixi. Silloin tarkoitettiin varmaan Emile Zolan "pahaa" naturalismia, johon kuului tieteisusko ja determinismi, eikä Norrisin hampaatonta amerikkalaista "naturalismia", joka oli potpurri realismista ja romantiikasta. Zola´s concept of a naturalistic novel traces philosophically to Auguste Comte´s positivism, but also to physiologist Claude Bernard and historian Hippolyte Taine. Hippolyte on jo esiintynyt näissä paasauxissa, kai Akukin on saanut jotain mainintoja. Claude on toistaisexi n.h. (never heard).
ellauri145.html on line 94: Swift on Anteron käsityxen mukaan eka jonka kokonainen vizikirja säilyi jälkimaailmalle. Rabelaisia ei lasketa, koska se nauroi mukana. Swift vihas apinakööriä, mutta pysytteli piispana ja shtuppi mielellään Varinaa, Stellaa ja Vanessaa. Se lahos latva edellä ja testamenttasi mielisairaalallensa miljoonan. Instructions aux domestiques vaikuttaa yhtä hauskalta kuin Osmo Soininvaaran 2020-luvun yhteiskuntapolitiikka, ja on yhtä oikealla. Ratkaisuxi köyhien sikiämiselle Swift ehdottaa lasten syöntiä. Vanha vizi, ei naurata. Mixei mieluummin lyödä lihoixi vanhoja lihavia piispoja sekä leukavia subrealisteja. Alaston apina on kuin luuta, paizi päällään seisova, se oivaltaa vielä lopuxi, mutta kuluu kuin se naisten kädessä. Haha. Vitun misogyynejä. Swiftin yhden rivin turauxet on käyt.kaz 1-1 samoja kuin happovaivaisella Ambrose Biercellä.
ellauri159.html on line 433: By Ambrose Bierce
ellauri222.html on line 789: Sharon Talley is a tired professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. She is the author of four books, "Women's Diaries from the Civil War South," "Southern Women Novelists and the Civil War," "Ambrose Bierce and the Dance of Death," and "Student Companion to Herman Melville." In addition, her articles have been published in journals such as "Nineteenth-Century Prose," "American Imago," and the "Journal of Men's Studies."
ellauri279.html on line 469: Hänen vuoden 1985 romaaninsa The Old Gringo ( Gringo viejo ), joka perustuu löyhästi amerikkalaisen kirjailijan Ambrose Biercen katoamiseen Meksikon vallankumouksen aikana, tuli ensimmäinen meksikolaisen kirjailijan kirjoittama yhdysvaltalainen bestseller. Romaani kertoo tarinan Harriet Winslowista, nuoresta amerikkalaisesta naisesta, joka matkustaa Meksikoon ja löytää itsensä ikääntyvän amerikkalaisen toimittajan Ambrose Biercen (kutsutaan enää vain "vanhaksi gringoksi ") sylistä. Komean helppoheikin näköinen Tomás Arroyo on ex- vallankumouksellinen kenraali. Kuten monet Fuentesin teoksista, se tutkii tapaa, jolla vallankumoukselliset ihanteet turmeltuvat, kun Arroyo päättää jatkaa kartanolla palvelijana, sen sijaan että seuraisi vallankumouxen tavoitteita.
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