Axiom: a statement that is so true that we do not need to find out whether it is true.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
“The internet is nothing but Achilles heels. Abundantly so. That is what I mean, dear.”
Horace Vespa, Nine Easy Lessons.
hour democracy
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
die agnostic
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Everything is strange. But we convince ourselves that the world is otherwise.
Cedric Plumm, All Roads Lead.
“Look, I realize that you are a girl—and that you are therefore quite desperate to say the word chaconne, and to pronounce it correctly. Nevertheless, the actual word is ciaccona.”
Dickinson Holmes, The Book of Shoes.
Psychology is the modern elixir. The modern explanation for all things.
Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.
The infinite is the normal state. It is the finite—the merely material—that is the special case.
Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.
“…and of course—as you might expect, Watson—the model fails. It does not work. Then, again, they are sometimes all the more charming when they don’t work. When they merely sit there, staring right at you.”
Holden Aberdeen, The White Towers.
In modernist aesthetics, sex is honesty. Failing to posit, to address, to explore, to dwell upon sex—or at least give in to it—is to be inadequate as an artist. Is to be dishonest. Doctor Freud’s victory.
Gaylord Perry III, The Walls of Magnus Martyr.
