I like this proposed addition to Ambrose Bierce's deservedly famous Devil's Dictionary:
draconian policies, stuff that a slogan can dismantle before a paragraph can defend
Some existing entries...
I like this proposed addition to Ambrose Bierce's deservedly famous Devil's Dictionary:
draconian policies, stuff that a slogan can dismantle before a paragraph can defend
Some existing entries...
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Coincidence? I just cam across this man's name in a link from the Powerline blog and here it is in the NYRB One of America's best. I was taken by this quote:
“It commonly occurs that in my poor little battle-yarns the incidents that come in for special reprobation by the critics as ‘improbable’ and even ‘impossible’ are transcripts from memory—things that actually occurred before my eyes.”
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