The cell phone brings us to the nightmare asymptote of photography: Everyone is capable of photographing anything at any time.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
The domicile is the most thorough illusion of all: We are now alone; we are now protected.
Alice Trinculo, Speaking to Sparrows.
“To look upon the world with new eyes.” Eyes that are conditioned by Modernism, with all of its habits, reflexes, and prejudices.
Hester Stills, The New Academy.
We must remember this: One cannot be interested in everything.
Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.
The satirical machine—e.g., Gulliver’s Travels—always implies that the narrator (author) occupies some special chair, above it all. Or above most of it.
Gunnar Grimes, The Persistence of Vision.
Put it this way: Opening boxes is what I do.
Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.
Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day.
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
162. The miraculous can never be defeated.
Trevor Martens, A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.
Getting ready for things seems wise. For things to come. But how does one get ready for things?
Edward Wickham III, Collected Papers of the Hasty Conclusion Club.
“Why look when you can simply leap? Always leap, old boy!” Patrick offered this advice with perfect confidence. After all, it had served him quite well. Hadn’t it?
Ruth Ledgerwood, Death by Logic.
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