I more or less demanded that he characterize the Baroque, and he said, “It is extravagant, it is theatrical, and it is extravagantly theatrical.”
Orson Tatterhouse, The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp.
“I asked him what he had in mind with the word shadow. And he said: ‘I mean rock. Rock music is the shadow’.”
Donovan Hoone, The Great Escape.
He published several novels in the 1920s, including Slender Returns and The Shrewd Schoolmaster. The latter won high critical praise for its peculiar narrative methods.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
It is the nonmaterial that has substance.
GodfreyTooke, Collected Aphorisms.
He annoyed all the local DJs with his persistent requests for American Woman (the long version).
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
The European political class would gladly flush itself—and everyone else—down the hole, but it cannot quite reach the pull chain.
Rollo Royce, The EU as a Form of Entertainment.
Dinsdale’s mistakes were often honest mistakes. And he seemed to be proud of that, although he sometimes wondered about the meaning of it all.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
“Chemistry never stops, Alice. Actually, nothing ever stops.”
Trent Bendix, Patricia Knows Best.
Internet: Before this, what did we ever do and call it living?
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
You cannot go at poetry directly. Not today. Not anymore.
Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.
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