Index:Bierce - Collected Works - Volume 09.djvu
CONTENTS
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TANGENTIAL VIEWS
Civilization of the Monkey 32 The Socialist — What He is, and Why 37 George the Made-over 48 John Smith's Ancestors 53 The Moon in Letters 58 Columbus 68 The Religion of the Table 76 Revision Downward 79 The Art of Controversy 83 In the Infancy of "Trusts" 91 Poverty, Crime and Vice 100 Decadence of the American Foot 112 The Clothing of Ghosts 117 Some Aspects of Education 121 The Reign of the Ring 130 Fin de Siecle 138 Timothy H. Rearden 142 The Passing of the Horse 147 Newspapers 151 A Benign Invention 161 Actors and Acting 169 The Value of Truth 179 Symbols and Fetishes 185 Did We Eat One Another? 192 The Bacillus of Crime 194
Sleep 203 Concerning Pictures 208 Modern Warfare 216 Christmas and the New Year 235 On Putting One's Head into One's Belly 242 The American Chair 245 Another "Cold Spell" 249 The Love of County 254 Disintroductions 257 The Tyranny of Fashion 261 Breaches of Promise 282 The Turko-Grecian War 287 Cats of Cheyenne 295 Thanksgiving Day 298 The Hour and the Man 302 Mortuary Electroplating 306 The Age Romantic 311 The War Everlasting 317 On THE Uses of Euthanasia 327 The Scourge of Laughter 338 The Late Lamented 341 Dethronement of the Atom 344 Dogs for the Klondike 348 Monsters and Eggs 355 Music 359 Malfeasance in Office 364 For Standing Room 368 The Jew 373 Why the Human Nose has a Western Exposure 382 |
