Revelation: a famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.

RAILROAD, n. The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get away from where we are to where we are no better off. For this purpose the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits him to make the transit with great expedition.

INFALAPSARIAN, n. One who ventures to believe that Adam need not have sinned unless he had a mind to - in opposition to the Supralapsarians, who hold that that luckless person's fall was decreed from the beginning.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.

Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.