What is the main point in the cult of ethnicity, good and bad article?

When first i engaged in this work, i resolved to leave neither words nor things unexamined, and myself with a prospect of the hours which i should revel away in feasts of literature . . –preface to a dictionary of the english language, samuel johnson what is the connotation of the word revel in this passage?

What inference about east egg values can be made based on this atmosphere? east egg residents like tom and daisy most value

Especially since they live in pack’s whos’ leaders are the biggest and strongest of them all.