Monday, June 18, 2007

Entry #93: Bookie.

There's a lot of humorous material available on Google Book Search, especially if you have a taste for bygone ways of joking. Here’s Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary, one of the most celebrated works of American wit.

Sample o sample!

daring: one of the most conspicuous qualities of a man in security.

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p.s. Oprah Winfrey's Book Club #57 is The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. I'm interested in reading it based on the author's bio.

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