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.

A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.