[analphilosopher] Keith Burgess-Jackson: Ambrose Bierce

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Posted by Keith Burgess-Jackson:
Ambrose Bierce
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   Manna, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the
   wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down
   and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the
   original occupants.

   (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, c. 1911)