dennis scharnberg

Life must be changed.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

Enlightenment is one way to clothe resentment.

Nathaniel Bumppo,  The Final Word.

“Is a tomato really that important?  Just wondering.”  A fair sample of Anthony’s enchanting table talk.

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

reversion to the moan

burst into tiers

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

—Well, that explains it then.

Explains what, George?

—Practically everything.

Philip Cavendish,  Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

One could write of the bold migration of artists—in the 1990s—across the mighty East River, and into the dark unknown of Brooklyn.  Derelict warehouses near the Williamsburg waterfront.  I would aim for about 900 pages.  And heroic couplets, I think.

Gunnar Grimes,  The Persistence of Vision.

Of course, all defects lie in the noticer, not in the noticed.

Gaylord Perry III, The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

Edgarton suddenly knew what he wanted to write about.  Precisely.  He knew the very title of his thesis:  New Meanings of the Word “Science.”

Anselm Bligh,  A Collection of Miniatures.

A thespian humility and an almost blinding self-importance are combined as she laments that “it should be up to such a feeble agency [as herself] to see to the enlightenment of the world.”

Etta Hardinge,  Helena Blavatsky Reconsidered.

Hello there!  I am your narrator.  Are you ready?  Well, then, let’s proceed.

Victoria Salt, ed.,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.