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People have called Peters a “nazi” because, of course, people do that.

Gilbert Dollarhide,  The Toil and the Trouble.

How do we find out what happened?  Say, yesterday?  Or this day in 966 A.D. in the city of Rome?  All given methods are inadequate to the task.  And even if there were some degree of adequacy in method, we could never impede the onslaught of interpretation:  “What did it all mean?  What, oh what, did it mean?”

Gaylord Perry III,  The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

Politician:   the one who fulfills our desire to be fooled.

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

We are humans.  Failing is what we do.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

Empiricism can be regarded as a form of magic.  Or it could be if we were able to regard it empirically.

Gardner Stuyvesant, The Trauma of Materialism.

“I want to be looked at.  I do want to be desirable.”

Nan Chresto,  Strengthen Your Core in Nine Easy Steps.

I learned this a long time ago:  that anything can do harm.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

A tough ho to row.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

What On the Road delineates is the nascence of a new kind (or degree) of self-absorption.  Kerouac did not intend this as a pretty picture.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.