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- Reading
- n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it
consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in “dialect” and
humor in slang.
We know by one’s reading
Jupiter Muke
His learning and breeding;
By what draws his laughter
We know his Hereafter.
Read nothing, laugh never —
The Sphinx was less clever! - Realism
- n. The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
- Reality
- n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
- Really
- adv. Apparently.
- Rear
- n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.
- Reason
- n. Propensitate of prejudice.
- Reasonable
- adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.
- Rebel
- n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
- Recollect
- v. To recall with additions something not previously known.