dennis scharnberg

A sentence is a model.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

It’s not that the Baby Boom [generation] cannot give up rock music. They won’t even step back a few feet and take a look at it.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

Physics excludes everything that it does not include.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“Do you prefer plain or sparkling?” asked the Attendant. “Plain,” said Nigel, in his firmest voice.

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

Is the author—is Kant—writing in good faith? And what about the reader? Is he reading in good faith?

Roger Boylan, ed., The Diary of Darius William Dunne.

“When,” asked Jason, “will we come to see how crucial it is that we not remember our dreams?”

Burnham Woode, A Circle of Radiance.

pint of view

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

And, in essence, the issue came to this: “Was Gerald mentally ill, or was he just a very unpleasant person indeed?”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Happy.

Small bird flying low missed by inches

Could feel its breeze

Went for a doze in shade.

Ann Sensabaugh, The Faulty Haiku.

Sculpture at the “heroic scale” is inevitably ludicrous. Let’s stop pretending.

Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.