![]() ![]() He disappeared in their company in late December of 1913, somewhere in the Chihuahua region of Mexico. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now. The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge. He joined Pancho Villa’s army in 1913, there to observe their efforts in the Mexican Revolution. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference. The story’s structure, which moves from the present to the past to what is revealed to be the imagined present, reflects this fluidity as well as the tension that exists among competing notions of time. ![]() His biting pieces of journalism were his calling card in those days, but he spent several years engaged in fiction writing as well. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is an elaborately devised commentary on the fluid nature of time. He worked in England from 1872 to 1875, then returned to San Francisco where he remained for many years. After the war, he travelled west with the military, stopping in San Francisco where he resigned his commission and became a journalist. Bierce fought in a number of prominent battles-including the Battle of Shiloh and the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, where he suffered a terrible heat injury-and his experiences formed the basis of many of his later stories (including “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”). Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio, the tenth of thirteen children whose names all famously began with the letter “A.” He began his career working for an abolitionist printer and enlisted in the Union Army at the start of the U.S. ![]()
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