dennis scharnberg

Iliad: goddess bribery snafu.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

“Who designed it and built it, Michael? And why?”

Holt Ludlow, The Great and the Wonderful.

“This is no world, Maltby. Why, this was barely ever a world!”

Cassandra Troyes, Land of Giants.

“I’m so special for being here,” thought Roger. “I am special for being here.”

Theo Darden, Watching for Earthquakes.

Urban: an itemized sophistication.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.

We always lack crucial information.

Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.

He wants a curl

Just like the curl

That harried dear old Dad

Clyde Burbage, ed., Letters from James Joyce.

“You have to watch out with that, Cassandra, or it will get you.”

“And what, exactly, is it that will get me?”

“The past.”

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

The lie in genealogies is that the time indicator is satisfied by month, day, and year. But the birth—like the conception—is down to exact seconds. Genealogies are crystalline.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

“It’s that personal myth. And we all have one, Paula. In one form or another.”

Haskell Wexler, Paradise, the Novel.