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Todd embraces no principles.  Yet he still refuses to compromise.

Brendan Shaughnessy,  Lobsters and Clams, a Novel.

Physics only appears to offer refuge to the atheist.  Actually, consistency is the greatest mystery of all.

Roone Giddings, Dirty Old Coins.

Elizabeth was displaying what actors call “anger.”

Gladys Huizinga,  Hard-Luck Dennis.

The more elaborate our reasoning, the more it tends toward segments of a circumference.

Craven Willowsey,  New Uses for Architecture.

Ideas serve primarily as a sort of badge of personal identity.  Any concern with characterizing (or understanding) the world is secondary at best.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed.,  The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

“Ideology” is a new form of slumber.

Gunther Pinks,  A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

University:  a practical joke (as in whoopee cushion, hot foot, pie in the face).

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

A fact of twenty-first century life:  You cannot escape actors and models (of all ages).  How did we accumulate so many of them?

Desmond W. Foote,  More Pedestrian Observations.

“My goal,” declared Rodney, “is to appear to be authentic.”

Sebastian Sleeve,  The Random Walk and Other Tales.

If Winston can’t be admired—and admired widely—then he just doesn’t care anymore.

Christine Rubb,  The Awful Puzzle.