HARVARD SQUARE COMMENTARY
March 19, 2007
From Sanitas
A Lexicon for the 21st Century
John Turner
Affectation: Expressions of grief when your benefactor dies.
Affectivity: Getting wrought up over very little.
Affirmative Action: Attempt to support equality by violating it.
Affluence: A set of blinders which allow one not to look at the world and, therefore, not to be bothered by what it is.
Age: A condition most often attained by trading benevolence for steadiness.
Agent: Siphoner
Agitation: State of young person who knows he is the most important figure of history but can't discern why.
Agony: The price we pay for the privilege of repentance.
Agreeable: The manner of one who is being flattered.
Agriculture: The worst mistake in human history, according to several Rousseauistic anthropologists and political theorists who hate the idea of there being more than a couple million people.
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