This work relates the story of a magazine editor mailing a letter entirely reading, "I don't agree with you" to Matthew Arnold and describes a plaque which erroneously claims that Benjamin Franklin was eaten by savages in the Sandwich Islands.
This work relates the story of a magazine editor mailing a letter entirely reading, "I don't agree with you" to Matthew Arnold and describes a plaque which erroneously claims that Benjamin Franklin was eaten by savages in the Sandwich Islands. It quotes from such poets as Jamrach Holobom and Father Gassalasca Jape and was begun in a series of "Prattler" columns in the (*) San Francisco Wasp. Its introduction states that imitations were published under the names "The Cynic's This, The Cynic's That, and The Cynic's t'Other." This book distinguishes between "academe" and "academy" and claims that a lawyer is "one skilled in circumventing the law". For 10 points, name this collection of satirical definitions written by Ambrose Bierce.
This work relates the story of a magazine editor mailing a letter entirely reading, "I don't agree with you" to Matthew Arnold and describes a plaque which erroneously claims that Benjamin Franklin was eaten by savages in the Sandwich Islands.
The Devil's Dictionary [accept The Cynic's Word Book or The Cynic's Dictionary before "Cynic" is read]