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Top of One's Voice Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce — Devil's Dictionary definition POSITIVE — matte black — front view
Top of One's Voice Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce-Devil's Dictionary
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
Top of One's Voice — Ambrose Bierce — phone case — literary heretics — black — lifestyle — Quoteiac
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Top of One's Voice — Bierce Devil's Dictionary Phone Case

Price$32.00

Bierce published "The Devil's Dictionary" between 1881 and 1906 in a newspaper column, one definition at a time. He never ran out of targets.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)

"POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice."

One of Bierce's most surgical entries — a single sentence that describes an entire personality type. He wasn't writing about doubt or humility; he was writing about the particular confidence that scales inversely with accuracy. You've met this person. You may have briefly been this person. The volume is the tell: the certainty that requires an audience is the thing Bierce is naming — not skepticism as a virtue, but noise as a substitute for being right.

The Design

The dictionary entry format on matte black does exactly what the definition does: it arrives with authority and delivers a quiet correction. POSITIVE, adj. at the top in bold — the part that sounds certain. The definition below it is the part that isn't.

Also in the Devil's Dictionary set: Bad Company, When You Wish Him to Listen, Resemblance to Ourselves, and Nowhere to Nothing.

About This Case

  • Tough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell
  • Raised edges protect the screen and camera
  • Wireless charging compatible — works with most Qi enabled devices
  • Available for iPhone 11 through iPhone 17 Pro Max
  • Care note: keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.

Who It's For

The one who's learned to distrust certainty. The person who knows that conviction and correctness aren't the same thing. Anyone who's turned down the volume on their own opinions and gotten clearer for it.

Carry the correction.

Ambrose Bierce, in Plain English

  • Lived: 1842–1914(?), Ohio-born, shaped by four years of Civil War combat and forty years in American journalism
  • He covered the noisiest era in American public life — the Gilded Age — and wrote through all of it with a pen dipped in something corrosive
  • His targets included optimists, boosters, politicians who knew they were right, and anyone who confused volume with truth
  • The Devil's Dictionary was his masterwork: a lexicon for people who'd rather know what a word actually means than what it's supposed to mean
  • Vanished in Mexico, 1913 — exactly the kind of exit a man who trusted nothing would have designed for himself
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Top of One's Voice Phone Case — Ambrose Bierce — Devil's Dictionary definition POSITIVE — matte black — front view
Top of One's Voice — Bierce Devil's Dictionary Phone Case Price$32.00