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into a puddle

“That’s boring, sir,” stated Jarvis.  “I’m sorry, but it just is.”

Alberta Traywick, Susannah’s Accident.

hasten the decline

Reggie assured Christina, and anyone else who would listen, that he had but a single goal for the summer: learning to regard the mirror as an object, just another humdrum object.

Douglas Cristobal, Feel the Logic.

little to do

What [Aleister] Crowley never understood: Magic is dreary.

Ellison Malmo,  The Hermeneutics of Leveling.  

opening the window

Live then, not now.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

more barren zeal

Explain to the dog why he should stop barking.

Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.

wrestling with demons

Entropy does not concern randomness or chaos; it concerns pointlessness.

Gilbert Ravening, The Phantom of Mechanical Consistency.

what thou wilt

Mrs. Fitzwilliam watched the glowing embers in a mistrustful manner….

Ruth Ledgerwood, Death by Logic.

aleutians allusions eluded

Economists embrace simple models not because the models are correct or accurate but because the economists can grasp them.

Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.

silent and vast

A European of 1907 had more in common with one of 1307 than with one of our kind.  That is high praise.

Gaylord Perry III, The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

led to believe

“Living is relentless distraction,” Mr. Ellison retorted.  “That is life today.”

Ford Blasey,  The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.