Below, you will find the next two PDF files for the next two texts we will be reading: Ambrose Bierce’s Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary and Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary. Both these texts we will spend a week on and they will help introduce us to two things: definition (obviously) and the cynical abilities, or, Cynicism (neither of which are “bad” things). Please download them and let your curiosity take over. They are fun reads.
Also, below, you will find the in-class work which became the homework for Monday (2/11/13), the Revision Handout I.
Voltaire – Philosophical Dictionary