What does Ambrose Bierce's definition of"eulogy" mean?
Toward the end of his life, Bitter Bierce had become completely disenchanted with this world.
On the other hand, many believe Bierce was executed by the federal army for spying, not Villa.
Bierce considered birth as“the first
and direst of all his disasters,” his occurring on June 24, 1842 in southeastern Ohio.
With the Mexican Revolution raging south of the border,
the 71-year-old Bierce left, ostensibly to observe or participate in the war.
According to this theory, the two found the skull together,
parted ways in Belize, and Bierce was never heard from again;
In the December 26 letter, Bierce wrote that he intended to join Pancho Villa's
revolutionary army as it rode to Ojinaga, Mexico.
Bierce could stand on a precipitous rim,
raise his trusty gun to his head, and allow the bullet to do its work.
However, few ascribe to this theory, largely because Bierce was a no-nonsense pragmatist,
and Mitchell-Hedges was a“blowhard… [given to] overstatement and lapses in truthfulness.
A couple of theories propose that Bierce intended to travel to South America,
a place that had“held up a beckoning hand to[Bierce] all[his] life.”.
By the age of 15, Bierce was in Indiana where he had taken
a job as a“printer's devil” for the abolitionist newspaper, the Northern Indianan.
At least one soldier reported seeing Bierce with the army before the battle on January 10,1914,
but not after, leading some to conclude he was killed at Ojinaga.
Another variant of the theory has it that Bierce joined the revolution,
only to be killed by Villa who was“weary of the mocking smart-ass who didn't promise fawning fealty.
A number of Bierce enthusiasts
claim that although a letter was posted in Mexico, Bierce never went there, using it instead as a ruse to distract from his
true aim- suicide in the Grand Canyon(one of his favorite places):.
In support of their“death wish” theory, some claim Bierce was“preoccupied with death and dying”[1]
as evidenced by the macabre route he took to Mexico, which included visiting a number of the battlefield sites where he had witnessed so much carnage during the Civil War.