Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

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

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

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.