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set a goal

We need more things that keep us awake.  Or that awaken us.  It is somnolence that threatens all.  We desperately need an irritant.

Clifford Parkening,  How the Moon Doth Sway.

the talking cure

In contemporary politics,  crises are the thing.  Solutions would just get in the way.

Claus Kretschmar,  Forms of Disobedience.

peal of bells

The End Time is coming?  No.  It is here.  This culture is the Apocalypse, a slow-acting Apocalypse.

Chalmers van Nest,  The Trivial Quadrivium.

as it is

man son family

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

brought to tears

Only a human could imitate a machine.

Delbert Arbogast,  The Null Hypothesis, and Other Stories.

open for business

Pauline’s minute-by-minute happiness is crucial for our universe.  That is what she believes.

Jason Starling, ed.,  Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

turn them away

If applicable, try the word “no” or the word “nothing” as an answer to questions.

Nicholas James Barnarby, ed.,  Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.

drawing the line

Cleanliness is elusive.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

the awakened state

Destroy the world.  Destroy the culture.  Destroy the self.  Destroy something.

Arlie Kahoots,  Confessions of a Very Merry Prankster.

all at once

To diagram the world—now that’s the thing.  It can bring immense power.  But we seem to have completely forgotten the risk.

Gregory James Honus,  Protocols of the Flounder.