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lute and pillage

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Some things to do at daybreak:

—let in the morning air

—wipe the dust off two shoes

—consider ways to change the facts

—use the word “crumble”

—fill the house with a pleasant aroma

—write letters for an hour or two

—think fifteen minutes ahead

—be drowsy but do not doze

Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty,  A Book of Lists.

“Girls are pretty, caring, and kind.”  That was young Albert’s mantra.  And repeat it he did.  Again and again.

Burdyce Goode,  Philosophy of Vegetables.

How to locate common sense?  Just look for those notions that seem unpopular.

Hugh Drummond,  A Canine World.

At least Kandinsky et alia made no attempt to continue in the way of van der Weyden and Durer and Caravaggio and de la Tour.  For this we owe a profound debt to Modernism.  Just think of the embarrassment prevented.

Crispin Trove,  The Viewer as Pest.

To characterize Henry Miller’s writing, Spalding needed but a single word: persistent.

Anthony Scowling,  The Beat Paradigm.

—I would advise her to stay away from the nastiness.  Avoid it completely.

—Nastiness?

—The internet, old boy.  The Web!

Clifford Apogee,  Draining the Pools—A Collection of Stories.

Any conflicting perspective was regarded by Melanie as a personal assault, of unspeakable cruelty.

Timothy Waldo,  The Important Things.

“Let us replace things that work with things that feel good.”

Will Bestwyck,  Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

Her face was pallid, as she lurked about on the lawn.  But that’s what moonlight will do.

Bertrand Thorne,  A Death on the Manor.