dennis scharnberg

It is almost impressive how much elaboration, disputation, quibbling, dissembling, arguing, posturing, legislation, disruption—even how much war—has been engendered by such a simple and direct message.

Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.

Theologians have the same motivation as the philosophers: to complicate the world.

Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

Novel: begins, bewitches, ends.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.