{"product_id":"top-of-ones-voice-bierce-devils-dictionary-phone-case","title":"Top of One's Voice — Bierce Devil's Dictionary Phone Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eBierce published \"The Devil's Dictionary\" between 1881 and 1906 in a newspaper column, one definition at a time. He never ran out of targets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmbrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"POSITIVE, adj. Mistaken at the top of one's voice.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Design\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso in the Devil's Dictionary set: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/bad-company-bierce-devils-dictionary-phone-case\"\u003eBad Company\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/when-you-wish-him-to-listen-bierce-phone-case\"\u003eWhen You Wish Him to Listen\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/resemblance-to-ourselves-bierce-devils-dictionary-t-shirt\"\u003eResemblance to Ourselves\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/nowhere-to-nothing-bierce-devils-dictionary-t-shirt\"\u003eNowhere to Nothing\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout This Case\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTough dual-layer construction — flexible TPU inner layer, hard polycarbonate outer shell\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRaised edges protect the screen and camera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWireless charging compatible — works with most Qi enabled devices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvailable for iPhone 11 through iPhone 17 Pro Max\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eCare note: keep away from liquids with high alcohol content and prolonged direct sunlight to preserve the design.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho It's For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarry the correction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAmbrose Bierce, in Plain English\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLived: 1842–1914(?), Ohio-born, shaped by four years of Civil War combat and forty years in American journalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHe covered the noisiest era in American public life — the Gilded Age — and wrote through all of it with a pen dipped in something corrosive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHis targets included optimists, boosters, politicians who knew they were right, and anyone who confused volume with truth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eThe Devil's Dictionary\u003c\/em\u003e was his masterwork: a lexicon for people who'd rather know what a word actually means than what it's supposed to mean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVanished in Mexico, 1913 — exactly the kind of exit a man who trusted nothing would have designed for himself\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Quoteiac","offers":[{"title":"iPhone 11","offer_id":42729899622494,"sku":"2936717_15392","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 11 Pro","offer_id":42729899655262,"sku":"2936717_15393","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 11 Pro Max","offer_id":42729899688030,"sku":"2936717_15394","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 12 mini","offer_id":42729899720798,"sku":"2936717_15396","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 12","offer_id":42729899753566,"sku":"2936717_15395","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 12 Pro","offer_id":42729899786334,"sku":"2936717_15397","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 12 Pro Max","offer_id":42729899819102,"sku":"2936717_15398","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 13 mini","offer_id":42729899851870,"sku":"2936717_15400","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 13","offer_id":42729899884638,"sku":"2936717_15399","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 13 Pro","offer_id":42729899917406,"sku":"2936717_15401","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 13 Pro Max","offer_id":42729899950174,"sku":"2936717_15402","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 14","offer_id":42729899982942,"sku":"2936717_16125","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 14 Plus","offer_id":42729900015710,"sku":"2936717_16129","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 14 Pro","offer_id":42729900048478,"sku":"2936717_16127","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 14 Pro Max","offer_id":42729900081246,"sku":"2936717_16131","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 15","offer_id":42729900114014,"sku":"2936717_17715","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 15 Plus","offer_id":42729900146782,"sku":"2936717_17717","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 15 Pro","offer_id":42729900179550,"sku":"2936717_17719","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 15 Pro Max","offer_id":42729900212318,"sku":"2936717_17721","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 16","offer_id":42729900245086,"sku":"2936717_20306","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 16 Plus","offer_id":42729900277854,"sku":"2936717_20307","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 16 Pro","offer_id":42729900310622,"sku":"2936717_20308","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 16 Pro Max","offer_id":42729900343390,"sku":"2936717_20309","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 17","offer_id":42729900376158,"sku":"2936717_33989","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 17 Air","offer_id":42729900408926,"sku":"2936717_33990","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 17 Pro","offer_id":42729900441694,"sku":"2936717_33991","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"iPhone 17 Pro Max","offer_id":42729900474462,"sku":"2936717_33992","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/8664\/4318\/files\/Top_of_One_s_Voice_Phone_Case_Ambrose_Bierce.png?v=1777778378","url":"https:\/\/quoteiac.com\/products\/top-of-ones-voice-bierce-devils-dictionary-phone-case","provider":"Quoteiac","version":"1.0","type":"link"}