dennis scharnberg

no obvious exit

I more or less demanded that [Huizinga] characterize the Baroque for me then and there, and he said, “It is extravagant, it is theatrical, and it is extravagantly theatrical.”

Orson Tatterhouse, The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp.

less imported bread

“I asked him what he had in mind with the word shadow. And he said: ‘I mean rock. Rock music is the shadow’.”

Donovan Hoone, The Great Escape.

myrrh and frankincense

He published several novels in the 1920s, including Slender Returns and The Shrewd Schoolmaster. The latter won high critical praise for its peculiar narrative methods.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.