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Devil's dictionary

LaTeX/PERL formatted text of Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's dictionary"

Why and how

This was taken from project Gutenberg, then transformed via Perl and LaTeX into nicely formatted form. In ~2000s.

I enjoyed writing the scripts.

I enjoyed the book.

Originally it was published in colums of newspapers, see Wikipedia documentation

Adulting:

the process of finding out how much shit you don't know and have to wing it
finding out how much winging it your "friends" do, how much because they try to explain things, but are also winging it and how much of it is manipulation, boasting
adjusting weights of all of the above
finding out who your real friends are (if there's >= 2 left, you are a winner, even a single one is still winner)
generally finding out everything's fucked up
but you can fix some things to make it beter
there are people who will oppose, dispose/workaround without getting thrown in jail/prison
there's trivial solution, kill everyone, therefore there is empty set of people having problems => all problems solved (you will find a lot of opposition to this, even if you try remove just yourself from the quagmire)
exit before life fucks you up permanently via some uncurable disease, find out which methods are least possible to leave you crippled (there exist basically binary-result methods - nothing bad happened xor everything ended)

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