Roderick was alert to what might be called conversational opportunity. The chance to display such words as eponymous or albeit or exacerbate to his peers.
Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.
“In her drawer, Sibberly? Or her drawers? It makes quite a difference, eh?”
Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.
What is the source of American morals for the past forty years? A sentimental novel called To Kill a Mockingbird.
Lucius Pym, Soft Sophistication.
You then realize that you have been wrong for a long time. You realize that you have always been wrong.
Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.
Destruction is easy.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
In the post-modern setting, the role of the mass media is to degrade communication. Ultimately, to make communication impossible.
Clem Tartessos, Designing the Past.
The rules are simple. Here they are: (1) embrace falsehood; (2) deny the obvious.
Lucius Pym, Soft Sophistication.
The internet transforms everything in the world into a spectator sport.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
Mrs. Pettigrew thinks that she is sophisticated. And therefore she is. But she will never see the tragedy in that.
Christopher Blasey, The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.
“It’s not lurid or extravagant. It’s actually mundane. It is humdrum. That’s it, Phyllis. Humdrum nihilism.”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
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