MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere "survivals" - as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.