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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... True as this statement may be (some of Bierce is, indeed, best taken in small doses), it oversimplifies, as must all such capsule decrees. Bierce did not seek merely to be ironic. As devil's advocate, his mission was to expose rogues ...
... true adoration. Hospitality extended to persons other than one's relatives or cronies would be real, true hospitality. It is not Bierce's definitions that are perverted, as is often charged, but the human tendency not only to turn one's ...
... true learning.” The reviewer also recognized the antipodal effects that a definition could have on different readers: “Those to whom the term applies [“Jealous” is cited specifically] may find either consolation or rebuke.” Bierce ...
... true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a halfhearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If ...
... (True, he finally died.) The fame of his wisdom filled the land, For his head was bald, and you'll understand His beard was long and white And his eyes uncommonly bright. Philosophers gathered from far and near To sit at his feet and ...
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