dennis scharnberg

merchant dice

three weird cisterns

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Let’s go through it once again.  What does society produce? O-r-d-e-r.

Isaac Twist,  A Primer of Posturing.

The popular culture presents a relentless permission to sink into narcissism.  To the mirrors we go!

Gunther Pinks,  A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

torn of frays

in dependent claws

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Doctor.  Oh, Doctor!  I am feeling anxious.  Is there a pill for that?”

Lane Vivian,  A Knob of Old Cheese and Eight More Tales.

“If ever there was theatre, it is saying sir.”

Christopher Grantham,  The Ancient Felonie. (1618)

Priscilla Fanning, ed.,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.

When a pose—a pretense—is indulged for too long, then what will follow?

Hilbert Kaasa,  Designing Arguments.

                                                                                                                                                                        At least a gallery full of modernist art doesn’t ask that much of you.  Like time, for instance.

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

More exercises for actors:

—Pretend that you are not mistaken

—Think like a dog

—Sing the Gettysburg Address aloud, in falsetto

—Sound almost convincing (but not quite)

—Weep

James Clymbie,  How To Achieve Authenticity.

Just because we cannot specify our dishonesty [in a particular case] does not mean that we were not being dishonest.

Desmond W. Foote,  More Pedestrian Observations.