Originally titled The Cynic's Word Book, it calls realism "the art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads," refers to birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," and defines a bore as "a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
This book contains a story by Shusi Itama about an executioner who hands his head to the Mikado after failing to kill Jijiji Ri. It distinguishes the Hebrew from the "Shebrew," which it terms "an altogether superior creation," and describes the fables of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Sugar Trust" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Rockefellers" in its section about "Lore." This book illustrates the central concepts with poems by such figures as Xamba Q. Dar, Jamrach Holobom, and Father Gassalasca Jape. Originally titled The Cynic's Word Book, it calls realism "the art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads," refers to birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," and defines a bore as "a person who talks when you wish him to listen." FTP, name this work of satiric lexicography by Ambrose Bierce.
This book contains a story by Shusi Itama about an executioner who hands his head to the Mikado after failing to kill Jijiji Ri.
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