How do you know that you liked it?
A. Greeted by smile in mirror
B. Felt tingle in toes
C. Informed by associates that you appear to have liked it
D. I Ching coins declared that you liked it
Charles Pfanning, Mild Interrogations.
new merry call
probe ability
Venn gents
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
It is a matter of what they say and what they do. Take “equality,” for example. It can be merely a rationale for the destruction of anything traditional.
Ernest Ingram, The Unclean Sweep.
Hedonism does not lead to boredom. It is a confession that one is bored. Hopelessly bored.
Kristin Hawes, The Dark Journey.
Do I ever actually own a photograph? Don’t photographs have an existence that is independent of our grasp?
P.J. Cahoon, The History of Crime.
With The Third Man, it’s like the film is the puppet master and the viewer is the marionette.
Albrecht Luggens, Ways of Serving Time.
threw a glass starkly
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Whom do I blame when things go well?
Otis Oswald, 900 Delphic Questions.
The idea was to write small, yes. But to move it all beyond—or outside of—the potential oppressiveness of the free-standing aphorism.
Jason Starling, Scale in Literature.
Sometimes I feel tired. And that makes things even worse. Because, of course, I haven’t done anything.
Axel Porphyrie, Doing Without Knowing.
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