Why does the world exist?
A. To be perfected.
B. To impede us.
C. To make us tingle.
D. Other.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“Or put it this way, Wilkins: Anything that did not last must have been something wondrous.”
Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.
An image—for example, an old black-and-white snapshot—is indeed material, but it does not celebrate materiality. At least, that can be the case.
Orson Tatterhouse, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.
“If you’re going to say ‘probably’, then please don’t say anything at all. I don’t know how else to put it, Claire.”
Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.
You always get carried away with materiality, my dear Janice. For example, I do have a ground under my feet. Yet it is hardly material!
Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.
“I am Cassandra, speaking in vain—always and ever in vain.” And, just like that, Edna was at it again.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
“I put it to you, that television content today is exceedingly dreary.” Edna again. Scripted again.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
He set for himself the following task: to stop all personal use of the word cool and the expression wow. That is really all you need to know about Mr. Chalmers. That says it all.
Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.
“Oh, what a quaint and curious daughter we have yielded to this world!” Edna would sometimes write elaborate scripts for herself, and then, out of the blue, she would spring those words upon her—sometimes startled— friends and acquaintances.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
“What a truly wonderful moment this is!” That was Edna again, reading from her script.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
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