Gloucester had it wrong. The gods don’t kill us for their sport. They give us reason and will for their sport.
Lawrence Rittle, The Fundamentals of Confusion.
A new definition of “modernism”: the avoidance of certain questions.
Melanie Kay Hingle, Truth and Consequences.
Will we hate ourselves? Or will we find a way to dog along in a culture of slop?
Axel Porphyrie, Doing Without Knowing.
Can’t we say that to blame oneself is to adore oneself?
Daniel Brasso, The Infinite Regress.
Irony: just one of the many ways of lying that are currently available to us.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
What would it mean to predict that the laws of fluid dynamics will remain unchanged?
Dalmo Etters, The Management of Uncertainty.
Glenda’s story was one of increasingly poor decisions.
Giles Coxe-Coburn, Tooth and Claw.
The crisis of our time: boredom.
Jackson Currothers III, The View From the Cauldron.
We don’t need principles, just pleasures.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
When we turn the page, we forget what we know. Isn’t that the point of turning the page?
Trent Malthus, A History of the Commonplace.
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