Faux dictionaries and encyclopedias
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| *Bierce's ''[[Devil's Dictionary]]'' | *Bierce's ''[[Devil's Dictionary]]'' | ||
| *Eluard and Breton's ''[[Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme]]'' | *Eluard and Breton's ''[[Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme]]'' | ||
| - | *Einstein's Encyclopaedia Bittanica, subtitled a Handbook of Art Knowledge, put forward less radical defintions: SCULPTURE. – Take a bit of this and a bit of that, position in space and make assertions. If lacking in courage, enter the Collection of Drainpipes, head held high, and discourse upon historical continuity. | ||
| - | *MERDE. – Value judgement of a sensitive idealist anticipating a private paradise. --''[[Encyclopaedia Acephalica]]'', from the preface | ||
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- Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas
- Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
- Eluard and Breton's Dictionnaire abrégé du surréalisme
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