Genre:

Reportage, Spoof

Subjects:

Invention, Human Species, Lecturing

    Reports on Michael Faraday's purported Royal Institution lecture on a process 'for the elimination of jokes'. The process, centring on 'lining the pockets of a literary gentleman with tin' and feeding him on venison or mutton and champagne, leads to 'an exhilaration of spirits' and 'ebullition of jokes'.