Be So Good Theyll Think This Later

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 6 a.m.

b'"The writer Ambrose Bierce was a notorious cynic and curmudgeon. He was also fearless and hilarious and a father. At some point in his life\\u2014we\\u2019re not clear on the details\\u2014he went through a painful split with his wife and the mother of his three children. Beneath his hard exterior, he was a sensitive man, and although we don\\u2019t know what happened, we get the sense that it was an enormous betrayal. Was it indefinitely? Worse? Again, we don\\u2019t know."Learn about an encounter that Ambrose Bi...'