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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Description==<br />
a birch-bound paper book<br />
<br />
The writing is in Anglic, and reads:<br />
The Devil's Dictionary<br />
<br />
A small paper volume bound with a pair of birch covers. A title is stained into the front<br />
cover. It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three. It is open to page one of three<br />
hundred ninety-three. You estimate its value at about one hundred gold. <br />
It is in perfect condition. <br />
It looks about two fifths of a dimin long, three dimins wide, and four dimins tall. It weighs<br />
about two and a quarter dekans.<br />
<br />
The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be<br />
used with it. Keeping the birch-bound paper book costs seven keep points. The birch-bound paper<br />
book was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Sun Feb 21 04:25:44 2016. The<br />
material birch was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:39<br />
2016. The material paper was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15<br />
02:18:43 2016.<br />
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==Text==<br />
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY<br />
<br />
by <br />
<br />
AMBROSE BIERCE<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
PREFACE<br />
<br />
_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was <br />
continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that <br />
year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _The <br />
Cynic's Word Book_, a name which the author had not the power to <br />
reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the <br />
present work:<br />
"This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by <br />
the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the <br />
work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out <br />
in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a <br />
score of 'cynic' books -- _The Cynic's This_, _The Cynic's That_, and <br />
<br />
It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three. <br />
==Relevant Skills==<br />
You feel that reading this material has broadened your perspective and increased your knowledge of [[chaos affinity]].<br />
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