“Oh look, he’s got a plastic bottle of water with him. He’ll be able to keep himself hydrated. What a clever fellow!”
Ralston Dowd, The General Ghastliness.
“Believe me, they know how to write those special novels better than anyone else on earth. The secret knowledge.”
Diana Moone, Living Well.
It is this: Feelings about memories of the feelings that we had before.
Titus Musgrave, The Enigma of the Box.
The philosophers tended to accept certain “problems” as being well-founded. As being “received”. Just as the mathematicians did (and still do). It is as though they are involved in some established “game” that has an existence independent of their intentions.
Christopher Jayne, A Critique of Sincerity.
Bureaucrat: someone who helps the citizen to accept starkness, ugliness, contradiction, freakishness, misery, nonsense, pointlessness,….
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
His thesis hinged on repeated use of such phrases as “decision mechanism” and “satisfaction index” and “universal validity profile”.
Thaddeus Crewes, Crowded Evil World.
“Give us a screen, a glowing screen!” Mr. Barton had found a way to mock everyone present, and most people who were not.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
Merit: a phantom.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Once he was within the canyon, Mr. Redhorn quickly determined what he wanted to observe. And it lay a good measure upstream. Over there, near the boulders.
James Yazzie, The Blue Mesa Murders. (1954)
“A special thanks to Windows 11.” Just another odd thought of Charlie’s, before falling asleep.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
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