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Whom is doomed.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“Hail damage. There’s a career in that, son. It’s a serious option for you. Do not doubt me.”

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

A “web” is a trap.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

“Question: What is the most difficult task to perform in the twenty-first century?

Answer: To notice what is right in front of you, and to call it what it is.”

Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

“I was afraid that he was going to say space-time, you see, and I’m pretty sure that he thought about saying it.”

William Garrick, My Friend Bryson.

“Yes, and nobody would stand up to Picasso. Nobody would tell him to stop. Just stop.”

Theo Darden, Watching for Earthquakes.

When he returned from this sojourn in Portugal, Kenneth resumed work on what he called his “big project”: a definitive—and precise—elaboration on those thoughts and behaviors that might qualify one for “full membership” in Modernity.

Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.

“If that is the hair-do of a reasonable man, I will chew on a sock!”

Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.

December 7, 2019. Regarding the more or less innocent word “literally”—Won’t someone (anyone) please do the following? Print the word on a sheet of clean paper, place that inside a cake tin, and bury it six feet deep in a hardwood forest? And leave it there for at least thirty-nine years? Thanks.

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

[Geist] claims to have uncovered a total of nine rules of objects (or of “things”). Here, I present only three of these.

Hans Paulus, How Pictures Look at Us.