… great new addition to the language … “Requestor” - is a person who requests X from you and when you do not give them the “requested” X they shoot you in the head. I have added this word to my self created supplement to Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article314548963.html
“Did I ask for fries?”
(slight language warning)
“Education**, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”
–Love me some Ambrose Bierce. The first time I read “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” as a young man… it scared me a bit. Years later “Jacob’s Ladder” seemed to have been been influenced by this as well (just me?).
Had thought I’d read somewhere that he died on a clandestine treasure-hunt but, at my age, probably unwittingly blending two persons histories… No one knows I guess…
Here’s an article I found just now while trying to augment my jaunt down memory lane…
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/10/17/very-trustworthy-witnesses/