He defines Snark: > Snark is a dishonest reduction expressed with knowningness. Which builds on a definition of knowingness he gives a bit earlier: > Knowing

He defines Snark: > Snark is a dishonest reduction expressed with knowningness. Which builds on a definition of knowingness he gives a bit earlier: > Knowingness, of course, is not knowledge—indeed, is the rebuttal of knowledge. Knowledge was what squares had, or thought they had, and they thought that it was the secret of life. Knowingness is a celebration of the conceit that what the squares knew, or thought they knew, was worthless.