dennis scharnberg

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“…he is condemned to be a postmodernist.  There is nothing else he can be.  It is just that hopeless.”

Jonathan Steed,  Down Under.

pain of stone

…there appears to be no limit on the number of ways one can be wrong.

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

goodness of fit

An hundred weeping eyes

shall prove lacking

For thy substantial neede.

Andrew Coventree,  The Five Golden Dayes.    (1590)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Elizabethan Stage.

grain of doubt

…drive them, sir, as

So many wilde beastes.

Samuel Wyllkins,  The Sexton’s Dreame.     (1622)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.

hear that number

Summerly’s ascent to mediocrity hinged on the efforts of several benefactors.  Not the least of these was a Mr. William Davy.

Nicholas Crisp,  A Suitcase Fell on Her Head.

bits and pieces

What was it about Theodor [Adorno] that enabled him always to have the worst ideas in the world?

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.

fit for nothing

“Your story is a lie, Tom!  Actually, it is ridiculous.

“All stories are ridiculous, Brenda.”

Herbert Fallowes, Inclined to Murder.