dennis scharnberg

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.

Espousing “cultural relativism” is a common form of insincerity.

Ambrose Glendenning,  The Crumbling Modern Buildings.

Their critique of the culture is itself a manifestation of the frivolity of that culture.

Hans Baldung-Grien,  Postmodernist Moments.

Culture:  a set of instructions concerning what to notice and what not to notice.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

The world I dwell in is one in which argument can gain no foothold.  It is all about sentiment, about strategies of feeling.

P. J. Cahoon,  The History of Crime.

We have a culture.  That does not mean that we know how to design a culture.

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

Regardless of subject, digital photos always end up looking like ads.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.