Скачать или смотреть An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: The Escape That Wasn't (Ambrose Bierce)

A man stands on a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down at the swift water below. A rope is around his neck. His hands are bound. He is Peyton Farquhar, a civilian planter about to pay the ultimate price for his devotion to the Southern cause.

But as the sergeant steps aside and the plank tilts, time itself begins to warp. The ticking of his watch becomes a deafening hammer blow, slowing the world to a crawl. In the face of death, the human mind is capable of constructing vast fortresses of hope—but can one truly escape the inevitable?

Ambrose Bierce’s masterpiece of psychological realism explores the desperate illusion of time and the terrifying power of the mind to deny reality. This is not just a war story; it is a journey into the single, infinite second before the end.

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