…the usual scant consideration given to the raggedness of the fossil record.
Kendall Landover, The Ferocity of the Daffodils.
The expression “social construct” imputes a lower status to anything that has been constructed.
Octavius Kinder, A Sustainable Unhappiness.
The human sense of smell is strictly mammalian. And that’s the trouble with it, isn’t it?
Tanner Faust, A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.
“Rock musicians are here!” Translation: Short guys are here (with their big egos and big libidos).
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
Destroy bourgeois culture (and capitalism), and along comes the Revolution (and justice and equality). That’s what the classical Marxist believed. And we have killed our culture. But there is no “revolution”—only a relentless ongoing decay.
Clifford Parkening, How the Moon Doth Sway.
[Marx] came to regard his relentless hatred as not hate but a particularly intense form of compassion.
Godfrey Daniel, Inspecting the Time Domain.
The only interest left in photography: to dwell on what is outside the frame (guessing, musing, dreaming, wondering….).
Roger Sensabaugh, A Short History of Boredom.
The real component of the torsional compliance vanishes at the resonance, and the imaginary portion is negative when the mode is linearly stable, approaching negative infinity toward the instability boundary.
Dieter Borst, The Mathematics of Elasticity.
The contingency of particles: They require space.
Gilbert Ravening, The Phantom of Mechanical Consistency.
Do not give up on rock ‘n’ roll. Ever. For to do so is to lose an entire world. And, surely, any world is worth preserving.
Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.
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