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Declaring someone a genius is always a case of using the word “genius.”

Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.

In those days it was still quite possible for a person to simply wander off, and never be heard from again.

P. J. Cahoon, The History of Crime.

When you finally see that—for a theologian—the religion is not the priority….

Tuc d’Audubert, The Trivial Quadrivium.

Edwin’s New Year’s Resolution was simple, perhaps even somewhat blunt: “to be less accommodating.”

Nicholas Bruhns, Otto the Magpie.

A stream of words—that’s what “the past” is.

Roger Sensabaugh, A Short History of Boredom.

“Don’t be silly, Carla. Any philosopher will tell you just how difficult it is to know something.”

Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.

Postmodernism: a vicious frolic.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

end sense

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Well, Franklin, I do think that I made a small mistake.”

“How small?”

“Very small. Miniscule, I’d say. Trifling. Piddling, actually. A mere particle of a mistake.”

Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

We engage with matter foolishly.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.