The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010 M09 15 - 440 páginas If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to listen," and happiness is "an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another." This is the most comprehensive, authoritative edition ever of Ambrose Bierce’s satiric masterpiece. It renders obsolete all other versions that have appeared in the book’s ninety-year history. |
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... gives as good practical results as any. I am not a Christian, but so far as I know, the best and truest and sweetest character in literature, next to Buddha, is that of Jesus Christ. He taught nothing new in goodness, for all goodness ...
... give all my roommates' boots to the poor.” How, then, to change human behavior? Bierce's moral yardstick—doing what Christ would do—informs many of the definitions in his dictionary. Some may feel that Bierce's methods were decidedly un ...
... give me the date at which I began it [“The Devil's Dictionary”] in the Wasp-at A. Salmi Morse had something like it going when I took the editorship.” Thus, Bierce did not inexplicably start his column midway through the letter P, stop ...
... give it another title. It is ready for compilation, but not compiled. It will consist of definitions (somewhat original) of such words that struck my fancy, regularly arranged as in a real dictionary. Some of the definitions stand alone ...
... give him good advice.” Said Jim: “If less could have been done for him I know you well enough, my son, To know that's what you would have done.” Jebel Jocordy. AEsthetics, m. The most unpleasant ticks afflicting the race. Worse than ...
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