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Two other dictionary projects: The Devil’s Dictionary (1906) by Ambrose Pierce and The Devil’s Financial Dictionary (2016) by Jason Zweig. I’m more interested in the original; all the definitions are satirical and he wrote it over decades. It has around 1,600 words in the unabridged version.
Raymond Chandler put it so beautifully, ‘Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.’
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
Computer scientist and technology blogger John Gruber on quality:
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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Haphazardly, which is how I believe books wish to be organized
Richard Osman • Richard Osman Has a (Tiny) Bone to Pick With John Grisham
In a prime spot just across the yellow-tape road from the lemon trees, he tended his own dark grove of bookshelves, and beside them a field of legal boxes, which held thousands of menus from restaurants famous and obscure. Whenever I passed Horace’s collection, there was someone flipping through the menus with the furious intensity of a DJ digging
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