{"id":314,"date":"2005-06-19T08:16:43","date_gmt":"2005-06-19T06:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/?p=314"},"modified":"2023-05-31T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:58:45","slug":"ambrose-bierce-the-devils-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herr-rau.de\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/ambrose-bierce-the-devils-dictionary.htm","title":{"rendered":"Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"
(1 Kommentare.<\/a>)<\/small> <\/div>

Weil ich vorgestern zu wenig Bierce zitieren konnte:<\/p>\n

Excerpts from The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
\n(written from 1881 to 1906)<\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n
Acquaintance, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Adam’s Apple, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A protuberance in the throat of man, thoughtfully provided by Nature to keep the rope in place.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Antagonist, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The miserable scoundrel who won’t let us.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Comedy, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A play in which none of our fellow-actors are visibly killed.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Comet, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

An excuse for being out late at night and going home drunk in the morning.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Corpse, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A person who manifests the highest possible degree of indifference that is consistent with a civil regard for the solicitude of others.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Culprit, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The other fellow.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Debauchee, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Defame, v.t.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

To lie about another. To tell the truth about another.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Dejeuner, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Deluge, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Egotist, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Friendless, adj.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to the utterance of truth and common sense.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Invasion, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The patriot’s most approved method of attesting his love of his country.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Inventor, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Kleptomaniac, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A rich thief.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Mine, adj.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Once, adv.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Enough.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Opiate, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Pedestrian, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Positive, adj.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Mistaken at the top of one’s voice.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Postscript, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

The only portion of a lady’s letter which you need read, if you are in a hurry.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Quack, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

A murderer without a license.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Really, adv.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Apparently.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Reconsider, v.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

To seek a justification for a decision already made.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Self-Evident, adj.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Evident to one’s self and to nobody else.<\/dd>\n

<\/p>\n

Truce, n.<\/dt>\n

<\/b><\/p>\n

Friendship.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

(Das ganze Buch kann man zum Beispiel bei www.blackmask.com<\/a> herunterladen, wie auch die ausgezeichneten Kurzgeschichten von Bierce.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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