Friday, October 17, 2025
The Enemy
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), "A Son of the Gods," The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, & Memoirs, ed. S.T. Joshi (New York: The Library of America, 2011), pp. 27-33 (at 27-28):
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The soldier never becomes wholly familiar with the conception of his foes as men like himself; he cannot divest himself of the feeling that they are another order of beings, differently conditioned, in an environment not altogether of the earth.
