The Unabridged Devil's DictionaryUniversity of Georgia Press, 2010年9月15日 - 440页 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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... examples of sin and immorality, egomania, hypocrisy, gross stupidity not only of individuals but also of the human race (at least the American species), fraudulence, intolerance, euphemism, phony gentility, hairsplitting about trivial ...
... example, Bierce recognized that human behavior is a matter of choice, not circumstance. Yet when he solemnly decrees that the modern religion Theosophy holds that “one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that ...
... examples show clearly that the similarities between terms in “The Demon's Dictionary” and later definitions of the same words known to be by Bierce are not merely coincidental. Bierce used satiric definitions only sporadically during ...
... example, correcting split infinitives, as he always did. A very few items have been omitted because of duplication, for reasons identified in the notes, but always in adherence to Bierce's wishes. For example, the verses that appeared ...
... example). 13. See “Theosophy.” 14. Considering that the majority of the definitions appeared in the weekly magazine the Wasp, it is somewhat ironic that the mnemonic device students were once urged to employ to remember the seven deadly ...