NOVEL, n. A short story padded.

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which they are pleased to call war and commerce. These, also, are the principal industries of the Orient.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Theology is a thing of unreason altogether, an edifice of assumptions and dreams, a superstructure without a substructure

HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.