dennis scharnberg

A fragment:

—And your name, sir?

—Bill.  Bill Williams.  I’m the actor.

Jeremy Breedlove,  A Sardonic View of the Movies.

Here is a haunting thought:  that the robots we construct (including computers) can only ever be robots.  Not very exciting, is it?

Jonathan Arness,  More Sing-Song Science.

It is beginning—and only beginning—to appear as though the information technology experts are not very smart.  It seems impossible.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

There was a (relatively) big bang.  The universe was created.  It began to accelerate.  And so forth.

Jason Starling, ed.,  Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

dictate or ship

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

We must remind ourselves continually of just how crucial naming is (and renaming).  Nomenclature is a form of magic.

Hildegard Spengler,  Asymptotic Processes in History.

Genuine guilt is individual.  It is personal.  Attributing guilt on a collective (or historical) level is a sort of game.  This marks the shift from morals to aesthetics.

Benjamin Alexis,  Thriving Under the Influence.

A bumper sticker:

Hate SPEECH!!!

Todd Lapidus,  Headlines, Captions, and Other Schemes.

One gets past the coarseness of it—how vile it is.  And one is left with a sense of how dreary it all is.  Pornography is vapid.

Melanie George,  A Phenomenology of Porn.

Of course, the statement that the literary text in question is “unstable” is not itself unstable.

Tobias Esterhase,  Codes and Encoding.