Tariff, N. A Scale Of Taxes On

Romance, N. Fiction That Owes No Allegiance To The God Of Things As They Are. In The Novel The Writer's Thought Is Tethered To Probability, But In Romance It Ranges At Will Over The Entire Region Of The Imagination . . .

Pleonasm, N. An Army Of Words Escorting A Corporal Of Thought.

Mad, Adj. Affected With A High Degree Of Intellectual Independence.

I Think I Think, Therefore I Think I Am.

Rope, N. An Obsolescent Appliance For Reminding Assassins That They Too Are Mortal. It Is Put About The Neck And Remains In Place One's Whole Life Long.