Litnet's version of Devil's dictionary

Nightmare - a horse that is nocturnal and female.

modernism - recent trends in art, literature, music, etc. which will soon be considered hopelessly outdated.

Magnum opus

Magnum opus - the time of night when you start asking the cat to serve you what's left in the champagne crate.

Decollate

Decollate: To shorten one's life by a head

Infamy:

Infamy: An entertaining account of events when the bad guys win.

Creative Nonfiction

Creative Nonfiction: Lies that avoid prosecution for libel by dint of reaching the best-seller list.

Here:

Here: Not there

There

There: Not here, like “then” being “not now”. If it is sound advice, and it is, for you to be here now, it is also best if you are not there then at the same time or at least have the probability that you are there then less than or equal to the probability that you are here now.

Detachment

Detachment Opposite of an Attachment. For instance many of the bits in the box of your new vacuum cleaner. They don't attach anywhere, therefore they may be considered detachments

Vacuum

Vacuum: An imaginary region of space persisting for a period of time containing nothing except a “ground state”, whatever that is, and the space and time defining its limits.

A vacuum should not contain space.
Nor time. Where does it need to race?
Be a point? Something less.
Something more? Let me guess:
Some awareness that won’t show its face. Alice, IF

Oxymoron

Oxymoron: Too stupid to even breathe


Plagiarism:

Plagiarism: A crime for most of humanity, but at university we term it 'research'.

Chronicle:

Chronicle: a time travelling flat bottomed boat invented by the Welsh.

Palimpsest

Palimpsest: Proof that censorship and plagiarism was rampant even in the Middle Ages.

ad infinitum:

ad infinitum: A way of saying endless in a language that ended.

earnestness

earnestness - a general restlessness leading to failed ventures and an early death.

tranquility