Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
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Humor, English language, Semantics, Vocabulary
The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve.
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Comic, cool, spare and intimate.
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On Open Library, 22 have read it and 254 want to.
“ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.”
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist.
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Taste Buds. Other media included when they land close.
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“Is this Ambrose Bierce's best work?”
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“Does the irony keep it from meaning anything?”
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“Is The Devil's Dictionary a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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If you loved this book, the film, the television, the music, the game.
