dennis scharnberg

Empathy is an important part of mental life.  But dwelling at empathy is a mental disorder.

Enos Slaughter, Speaking Out of the Ground.

Seated in a gleaming white cubicle.  Hovering over a radiant monitor.  Clickety-clickety-clack.  Now how could that fail to sustain life?

James Timothy, Deviation From Linearity.

“Who isn’t a novelist?  A show of hands, please.”  Jack was toying with his audience.  Of course.  But he did really want to know.

Val Destrie, Skipping the World.

The journalists are all leftists because that’s the only kind of person who can stand to do the job.  And what is the job?  It is indoctrination.

Tyrone Sommer, Circling the Drain.

Having an audience is a form of suicide.  A persistent suicide.

Algernon Webb, A Speculative Autobiography.