FOOL

[Nonson]

FOOL, n.
A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific, omniform, omnipercipient, omniscience, omnipotent. He it was who invented letters, printing, the railroad, the steamboat, the telegraph, the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war -- founded theology, philosophy, law, medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting -- such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills, and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization, and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization. D.D.

[Petri]

Haven´t slept well, Nonson?

[Nonson]

Petri,

No person with yet a spark of life in him would choose sleep over this excitement. This is living in the fast lane; a walking on the high wire; a breath-taking plunge into the abyss of the unknown. How could you even ask such a mean question? Man, this is more desirable than sex at sixteen. You really should find a warmer clime, among people who still have a throb left in them. Peace