ambrose bierce

The Fallen Dreams of Escape

by: gottlieb

Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 12:06:14 PM EST

(Gottlieb is ALWAYS fp material! - promoted by Diane G)

The classic Ambrose Bierce short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge has a man being hung and miraculously the rope breaks and he escapes and has an adventure only to find in the end the rope didn't break and his escape was a dying dream of desperation. In the end the man hangs from a stiff rope, dead of a broken neck.

Barack Obama is our dying dream of the desperate.

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