PEACE: the source story

Christopher Keiser · 10 Jun 2009, 20:00 · from 2009-June.txt.gz

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From: slowalrus at gmail.com (Christopher Keiser)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:46 -0400
Subject: (urth) PEACE: the source story
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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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