June 3, 2006
Devil's Dictionary
"IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line." ~Ambrose Bierce
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I've always loved Bierce's satiric wit. I'm also a Swift fan. You're probably familiar with this all-to-true observation:
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him."
Have you ever read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole?
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