dennis scharnberg

Such-and-such is the case. Always.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Materiality is ridiculous.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Try as he might, Trevor could never account for all of his assumptions.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

Philosophy: Explanations by explainers who might not exist.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.

The salient feature of psychoanalysis—as in all psychology—is its dependability. Apply the method on any matter, and one is sure to come up with something.

Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.

On that cold damp morning in November, Mr. Ambrose felt that there could not possibly be a more ridiculous world.

Victoria Salt, A Compendium of Opening Lines.

“Remember?” replied George, with only mild irritation. “Of course I’ll remember. All I do is remember.”

Lawton Trumbull, The Three Days.

It rained cats all morning long,

and dogs in the afternoon.

The sky was stitched of gingham,

The sun a lost balloon.

[from “On Thorny’s Farm”]

Miles Bantry, ed., Mister Roode’s Rustic Tales.

Social Media is just folks.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

The internet was always a bait-and-switch. The “bait” was unprecedented access to information and entertainment. The “switch” was a surveillance state. We swallowed the former and now dwell in the latter.

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.