The Devil's Dictionary: Telescope

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
TELEPHONE
TENACITY

TELESCOPE

-n.

A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.

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