Diagnosis, N. A Physician's Forecast Of Disease

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 . . .

Crayfish, N. A Small Crustacean Very Much Resembling The Lobster, But Less Indigestible.

Reparation, N. Satisfaction That Is Made For A Wrong And Deducted From The Satisfaction Felt In Committing It.

I Believe We Shall Come To Care About People Less And Less. The More People One Knows The Easier It Becomes To Replace Them. It's One Of The Curses Of London.

Appeal. In Law, To Put The Dice Into The Box For Another Throw.