WARNING This is a Gentlemen's Club
No women allowed, will be banned on sight Manginas, feminist vassals: enter at your own risk
THANKS
Welcome again, gentlemen.
We want this meeting to be...
...a bit less serious than usual.
We had our doubts about it, but further...
...research makes today's guest, we think...
...a member of such noble lineage...
...that is 'MGTOWs from the past'.
Go on, if it pleases you...
...and share your opinion with us.
AMBROSE GWINETT BIERCE was born in Ohio...
...USA, in 1842.
Got a liking for literature, as did...
...basic education from his father...
...a farmer plagued by apathy and misfortune...
...in a family of puritan calvinist tradition...
...which true head was his strict and dominant mother.
No wonder Bierce fled his household as...
...soon as he could.
He wanted to run away from that domestic prison.
His steps took him to the military...
...fighting the ACW as a volunteer in the 9th regiment...
...of infantry of Indiana.
Experiencing...
...first hand the cruelty of war left a mark on Bierce...
...and his work.
Fought at the most bloody battle of the western theatre...
...SHILOH, and at many others.
He was severely wounded coming the war to its end.
That did not prevent him from going back to action...
...as soon as he could grab a rifle.
His skill and bravery earned him the rank of Major...
...although, the war then over...
...he regular army only allowed him to keep that of 2nd lieutenant.
That was the reason for leaving his military career.
He began, then, the career which made him famous:
Journalist and Writer.
Save for a brief period in London...
...Bierce worked only in the USA.
He became a master duellist of satire and sarcasm...
...fed by an acquired misanthropy...
...criticizing rampant corruption and the innate ignominy...
...in human nature.
As practitioner...
...of the short tale, his work went from the dark to the macabre...
...spiced with the blackest humor.
That made him...
...a literary heir of EDGAR ALLAN POE himself...
...and earned too a mention in both essay and tale...
...from another giant of the classic horror genre:
H.P. LOVECRAFT
Many MGTOWs will identify with him...
...as soon as they learn how Bierce knew...
...about female loyalty: by foul.
Married a comely maiden and had 3 children...
...but reality hit him with more violence than...
...any of the shells that could have done so in battle.
Discovered the letters his beloved exchanged with her secret lover.
As an old man...
...asthma and battle wounds...
...didn't chain Bierce...
...to the typical fate of a man in his last years.
In 1913...
...joined Pancho Villa's army as a scout.
He was 71.
He is presumed dead by firing squad...
...but his body was neither found nor identified.
Bierce, we wonder...
...made the trip of which no one comes back as he wanted:
Spitting over the warm blanket and comfy couch...
...an old man is expected to meet.
And making a curtain of fog fall over his final fate...
...in the way legends do.
Bierce's most famous work is THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY.
A collection of...
...alternate definitions for many terms...
...written with his characteristic acidic ink.
Originally published in several newspapers...
...and later compiled in a single volume...
...titled as we all know.
No one, and that includes us...
...is spared Bierce's whipping in it.
But let's enjoy some entries...
...because today the Dictionary would be blacklisted...
...and marked for burning at the bonfires...
...of PC Inquisition.
Eng Speakers: please FULL SCREEN!
I cannot help but recommend you...
...to fully read it.
A bucket of prusic acid...
...which would corrode the lungs of any...
...dumb snowflakes of the new Inquisitions.
We highly doubt any of them...
...would read the definitions above without dying of triggering.
Hope you have enjoyed it, gentlemen.
Will be a pleasure and honor...
...have another talk with you in the future.
As we always like to say:
Think free, live free...
...and care yourselves.
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