the devil's dictionary meme

[chatona]

the devil's dictionary meme

A virtual onslaught of acerbic, confrontational wordplay, The Devil’s Dictionary offers some 1,600 wickedly clever definitions to the vocabulary of everyday life. Little is sacred and few are safe, for Bierce targets just about any pursuit, from matrimony to immortality, that allows our willful failings and excesses to shine forth.

1. post your character with name, series and preferences
   
2. click here or here for a random definition from the devil's dictionary. the first link goes to the original, the second is a modern version.
   
3. tag others, using the random definition as a prompt

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[transferee]

Is that the real moral of the stories than? Nothing is ever enough?

[lostcount]

Unfortunately. There's always going to be something else coming.

[transferee]

It does seem that way.

[lostcount]

[she glances down at her watch.]

I'm holding you up. What time did you say your father was going to be home?

[transferee]

I don't know, he had to meet with some suppliers today.

[lostcount]

[She takes a breath, before gesturing to the pad of paper.]

May I?

[transferee]

[she nods.] Go right ahead.

[lostcount]

[she walks closer, scribbling down her phone number.]

That's my cell. If you could give this to your father when he gets home? I think I've held you up long enough.

[transferee]

I'll make sure to give it to him.

[lostcount]

Thank you.

[and with that she starts to make her way back to the door.]

It was nice talking with you, Allison.

[transferee]

Likewise.

[lostcount]

[and with that, she heads to the door.]