|
09 Jan 04 - 07:45 AM (#1089328) Subject: The Devils Dictionary From: stevethesqueeze I thought you might like these definitions from "The Devil's Dictionary, author Ambrose Bierce. Published in the UK by Oxford University Press in their series Oxford Language Classics, 2002" Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin There's also Piano, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience stevethesqueeze |
|
09 Jan 04 - 08:10 AM (#1089337) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Steve Parkes A truly wonderful book, Steve! |
|
09 Jan 04 - 01:12 PM (#1089529) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) "The Devil's Dictionary," Ambrose Bierce, is on line in its entirety: Devil's Dictionary Look at the poems by various authors, included by Bierce with some of his "definitions." |
|
09 Jan 04 - 02:03 PM (#1089562) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Peace Bierce died in Mexico in 1913 or 1914 didn't he? (My memory ain't what it used to be, and it never was.) And his body was never found? |
|
09 Jan 04 - 02:16 PM (#1089569) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Uncle_DaveO Ambrose Bierce is ALIVE, and living with Elvis in Rio de Janiero! Dave Oesterreich |
|
09 Jan 04 - 02:31 PM (#1089575) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Dave the Gnome Our local Oxfam shop received dozens of copies from either a bookshop or publisher that went bust. Needless to say I got a couple:-) Just brilliant! Cheers DtG |
|
09 Jan 04 - 03:02 PM (#1089596) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Yes, brucie, and the movie "The Old Gringo" is a fictional account of his last days, covering the Mexican Revolution. Not a bad film. |
|
09 Jan 04 - 06:05 PM (#1089695) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Joe_F Fiddle, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat. |
|
09 Jan 04 - 07:20 PM (#1089747) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: mack/misophist Ambrose is believed to have left San Francisco to go to Mexice to interview Emiliano Zapata. He was really too old for that sort of thing by then. That's all any one knows for certain. He's probably not in Rio, though. I hear it's not such a nice place any more. |
|
09 Jan 04 - 11:12 PM (#1089783) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Joybell I always thought that he changed his name to Don Juan and lurked in Mexican bus shelters. Joy |
|
09 Jan 04 - 11:18 PM (#1089788) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Ambrose Bierce was 72 when he disappeared in 1914. |
|
09 Jan 04 - 11:20 PM (#1089790) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: LadyJean Bierce went to Mexico and disappeared. People do that. One of the people I cleaned for, who was kind of paranoid, had a book on how to hide your assets and disappear. The book reccomended Mexico as a good place to disappear in. |
|
09 Jan 04 - 11:24 PM (#1089792) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: RiGGy Our new Muddy Member, Stan Kelly-Boodle wrote a very funny book mixing computers and Bierce, back in '81 called The Devils DP Dictionary. http://www.feniks.com/skb/words/words.html One of my old Philly college chums also wrote his own takeoff The Devil's New Dictionary by Richard Iannelli http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0806507918/002-8425305-3327223?v=glance Riggy |
|
10 Jan 04 - 12:02 AM (#1089804) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) The last letter from Bierce, written from Chihuahua, December 26, 1913, said he expected to move out to Ojinaga to be with Francisco Villa's troops. No more was heard from him. Villa captured Ojinaga from federal troops on January 1, 1914. Investigators found nothing and presumed that he died during the battle. For a condensed description of his eventful life, see: Bierce Chronology A comprehensive "Devil's Dictionary" is being (or recently has been) published. Bierce only published a selection in his book; many entries had appeared in California newspapers. |
|
10 Jan 04 - 07:56 AM (#1089915) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Billy Weeks Among non-Bierce DDict-style definitions I recall is 'Farmyard: A square stench surrounded by buildings'. |
|
10 Jan 04 - 08:08 AM (#1089921) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: catspaw49 I still have a copy I got in high school. I might point out that regardless of where he died, he was a good Ohio boy from Meigs County. Spaw |
|
10 Jan 04 - 10:17 AM (#1089969) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Nigel Parsons Check with Little Hawk, maybe he's one of the Star Trek pantheon of 'Immortals', and moves on and assumes a new ID when people believe he has lived too long. If so, who is he marauding as now? Nigel |
|
10 Jan 04 - 08:50 PM (#1090247) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) "The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary," Bierce, ed. David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, Univ. Georgia Press, 440 pp. in paperback, available from Amazon and other sources. The hardback (2000) is out of print. This edition contains additional definitions and is fully annotated. Bierce, wearing his journalist's hat, published in newspapers, etc., in England as well as in the United States. |
|
11 Jan 04 - 06:42 PM (#1090609) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Abby Sale It's should all over the web. Go Google. I downloaded a copy 10 years ago but then we thought addresses were permanenent & there was no real need to record the URL. Right! This is all the identifier stuff I have: The Internet Wiretap 1st Online Edition of The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce COPYRIGHT 1911 by Albert and Charles Boni, Inc. A Public Domain Text, Copyright Expired Released April 15 1993 Entered by Aloysius of &tSftDotIotE aloysius@west.darkside.com Return to The Knorst Family Home Page. [Image] Return to Jack's Home Page. This page created by Jack Knorst - email: (jknorst@baginc.com) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Or I can e-mail it to you. Only 385 kb |
|
11 Jan 04 - 07:26 PM (#1090641) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) ?? 09 Jan 04, my link to a website with the complete Devil's Dictionary, 1911 edition (the first was pub. in 1906 by Doubleday Page). Those really interested should buy the new edition with additions and commentary put out by the Univ. Georgia Press, now available in paperback. |
|
11 Jan 04 - 08:44 PM (#1090713) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: The Fooles Troupe You may find it at the site which has a project to publish on line all books in the public domain out of copyright - the name escapes me, but I'm sure someone else here will oblige... Robin |
|
11 Jan 04 - 08:47 PM (#1090717) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Nigel Parsons project guttenbrg Glad to oblige Nigel |
|
11 Jan 04 - 10:03 PM (#1090777) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) It can be found at Gutenberg, but the one I gave is easier to read. txt file at: Devil's Dictionary Also a zipped file: Zipped devil |
|
11 Jan 04 - 10:07 PM (#1090781) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Link to zipped Devil changed but just fill in the blanks and follow directions. |
|
12 Jan 04 - 10:13 AM (#1091101) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Jim Dixon Bierce was also an excellent writer of short stories, his most famous being probably "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" which was adapted for TV at least twice, once as an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in 1959, and again as an episode of "The Twilight Zone," in 1964. See Bierce on the Screen. I imagine his stories can be found online, too. |
|
15 May 07 - 03:39 AM (#2052096) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: GUEST name |
|
15 May 07 - 06:20 AM (#2052174) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Scorpio I once read a story in which Bierce met his end when his hosts (who were very generous with food) turned out to be cannibals. |
|
15 May 07 - 04:32 PM (#2052722) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) No cannibals in Mexico- maybe vampires?. |
|
15 May 07 - 05:23 PM (#2052792) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Amos Does anyone know if there was any particular link between Ambrose Bierce and Alistaire Crowley? A |
|
16 May 07 - 01:56 PM (#2053711) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) I would sincerely doubt it. Bierce was a satirist, even his ghost stories show this touch, as do his stories of the Civil War. As near as I can tell from a biography, he was agnostic. Some of his many short stories, and the "Devil's Dictionary," are here: http://www.online-literature.com/bierce Bierce Try "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge." He was an excellent writer who was not above twisting a knife in the reader; he should be much better known. |
|
16 May 07 - 02:44 PM (#2053761) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Amos "Aleister Crowley, explicitly identified by name, is a major character in F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre's 1994 novel The Woman Between the Worlds, and also appears in "The Enigma of the Warwickshire Vortex", a 1997 short story by MacIntyre. In both of these fictional works, MacIntyre divulges obscure but accurate facts about Crowley: for example, the surprising fact that the American author Ambrose Bierce was residing near the home of Crowley's parents in Leamington Spa in February 1875, nine months before Crowley's birth. " Aside from this odd coincidence, they occasionally get mentioned together or anthologized in the same place, but o other connection comes up. A |
|
16 May 07 - 10:09 PM (#2054155) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: GUEST As some of our resident MudCatters will attest...there is a DISTINCT difference between, Lucifer/Divil, Satanists/Wiccans, Ghea/Herra. |
|
16 May 07 - 11:11 PM (#2054187) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Q (Frank Staplin) Which, Guest, has absolutely nothing to do with Ambrose Bierce. |
|
17 May 07 - 02:01 AM (#2054245) Subject: RE: The Devils Dictionary From: Lonesome EJ I happen to know that Bierce is alive and well and living in Shangri La. Along with Amelia Earhardt. |