dennis scharnberg

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the awful puzzle

Reclining:  telling lies whilst lying.

Royce Michaels,  The Kingdom of Ice.

taken by surprise

wet  pain

eye  soar

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

rhyme or reason

“Which is worse, the fool or the coward?”  Neither is worse.  Actually, they are both good.  They are very good indeed.

Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.

weaving and unweaving

I have drifted along in an appalling way—aloof from my family, from friends.  Having an occasional thought.  Jotting down a few words.  What could that add up to?  Does summation even apply here?

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

just in case

Actors:  All eyes are on them, as they pretend such and such.

Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

bullfinch of wax

One advantage of superficiality is that one cannot notice that one dwells merely at the surface.

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

badly baked bread

“Who asked them?  Who did ask them?  To vote on the entries for some damned award that must be given?”

Mildred Cummings, Murder and Poetry.

life and opinions

Avoid the light day and night.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

part and parcel

All physical laws are tautologies.  All of them.  Little circles that go round and round.

Dieter Borst,  Introduction to the Mathematics of Elasticity.

rattle and roar

To deride modernist art is to engage in Philistinism.  The modernists established this notion quite early, in order to conceal the fact that they are the Philistines.

Tyrone Sommer, Circling the Drain.