dennis scharnberg

there you are

There is the proclaimed preference, always readily accessible.  And then there is the revealed preference.

Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.

taking chill pills

Sociality today is shared abhorrence—of A, of B, of C.  That is what we have become.

Christopher Jayne,  A Critique of Sincerity.

apologize to me

It is not just the centrality of self-definition.  It is the defining of oneself with no need to refer to evidence.  That is postmodernism.

Trevor Albertus,  Malevolent Asymmetry.

deep psychological trauma

“But what does the outlier tell us, Mr. Hemmings?  It must be something.

Kiefer Sythe,  The Detective Club.

spurned churned burned

“We lack the willingness to say No,” said Patrick.  “That will be our undoing.”

Roone Giddings,  An Arrangement of Particles.

cracking of houses

’twas the best that ever I did hear

in birde, sir….

Andrew Coventree,  The Tutor’s Dreame.          (1612)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.