I was able to abandon drinking, and I was able to get past my attachment to money and the luxuries made accessible by it. But I have never succeeded in escaping self-absorption.
Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.
“If I were to move a chair more than an inch or two, I would violate the aesthetic integrity of damn near everything. That fairly well sums up my experience with interior design.”
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
“But I’m not speaking about a place, Mr. Humphries. I am speaking about a time.”
Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.
The pun doesn’t dissolve meaning, it multiplies it. There is more meaning than we had thought.
Jason Starling, Scale in Literature.
After forty miles of silence, Alex punched on the radio, muttering “I could sink my teeth into some Billy Joel right about now.”
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
“Can you see the general in the specific, Carla? Can you? Can you?”
Dickinson Holmes, The Book of Shoes.
The entire apparatus of the theologian rejects the notion that the answer could be simple.
Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.
It rained all day.
And it rained all night.
The water ran heavy
in the creek with spite.
And the morning came back
with a timid light.
[from “The Wolverton Ballyhoo”]
Miles Bantry, ed., Mr. Roode’s Rustic Tales.
“There are so many ways to say no, Ellen. So very many ways. Choose one.”
Burnham Woode, A Circle of Radiance.
The world of spirit might not be dazzling exactly, or breathtaking. But it is completely different.
Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.
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