Not only is it the soul of wit, but it allows me to knock off a day of gratitude with a single sentence, thereby not only keeping my promise to myself to write a hundred posts in a hundred days while not completely preventing me from actually enjoying some of the physical things that I am grateful for, such as good food and drink, the company of my wife, sleep, dreams, and so forth; but also allowing me to indulge in one of the mental activities a talent for which I am also grateful for, that being irony.