Sukie at 06:43, 27 December 2017

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==Description==
a birch-bound paper book

The writing is in Anglic, and reads:
The Devil's Dictionary

A small paper volume bound with a pair of birch covers. A title is stained into the front
cover. It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three. It is open to page one of three
hundred ninety-three. You estimate its value at about one hundred gold.
It is in perfect condition.
It looks about two fifths of a dimin long, three dimins wide, and four dimins tall. It weighs
about two and a quarter dekans.

The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be
used with it. Keeping the birch-bound paper book costs seven keep points. The birch-bound paper
book was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Sun Feb 21 04:25:44 2016. The
material birch was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:39
2016. The material paper was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15
02:18:43 2016.
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==Text==
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

by

AMBROSE BIERCE

PREFACE

_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was
continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that
year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _The
Cynic's Word Book_, a name which the author had not the power to
reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the
present work:
"This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by
the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the
work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out
in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a
score of 'cynic' books -- _The Cynic's This_, _The Cynic's That_, and

It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three.
==Relevant Skills==
You feel that reading this material has broadened your perspective and increased your knowledge of [[chaos affinity]].
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Sukie at 06:43, 27 December 2017