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Happy Birthday, Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

Here we have the story that inspired myriad others, including Jacob’s Ladder and of course, this adaptation which later appeared as part of The Twilight Zone.

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Update: Took me a bit to find it. From Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary:

BIRTH, n.
The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor and Pollux were born from the egg. Pallas came out of a skull. Galatea was once a block of stone. Peresilis, who wrote in the tenth century, avers that he grew up out of the ground where a priest had spilled holy water. It is known that Arimaxus was derived from a hole in the earth, made by a stroke of lightning. Leucomedon was the son of a cavern in Mount Aetna, and I have myself seen a man come out of a wine cellar.

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