dennis scharnberg

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to be continued

“The blows appear to have been delivered with a 2 x 4.  But it could have been a 4 x 4.”

Ernestine Stanley, The Case of the Cautious Cadaver.

well into pocket

“I went insane once.  Or very nearly.  It could happen again.”  Was this a warning on Gregory’s part?  Or was it his idea of entertainment?

Gareth Spence,  She Braved All.

stacking the deck

The title of Bernadette’s book was Shattering Stereotypes.  But Jack wasn’t sure whether it concerned stereotypes of “shattering” or the prospect of doing harm to stereotypes.  Only reading would tell.

Devona Twilly, Shallowness, a Novel.

nothing at all

“My guess is that he knew that he looked like a weasel.  And that he wished to—I don’t know—sort of accentuate that.  With the slick hair-do.  And the rest of it.”

Glynnis Hoving, The Multiplication Murders.

rules of art

Historian, please ask this question:  How did long-march cultural Marxism come to be the standard?

Tate LaBianca, Four and Twenty Blackbirds.

bit by bit

…while we slumber so enjoyably.

Lawrence Bird, Make It So.

throwing little light

Alack, good sir, he thinketh himself a shell-fish.

Thomas Gallowes, Titus Moans.   (1694)

first things first

Taking a test is strictly irrational.  Even though one endeavors to be rational within the test.

Aaron Flynders, A Theory of Everything.

polynomial chaos expansion

“Surely, reality will adapt to my needs,” Linda must have been thinking.

Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.

squaring the circle

If you had no “ingrained assumptions,” you would have no shoelaces to tie (and no shoes).

Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.