“I would expect about 370 pages, Patricia. And each one of those pages will be loaded with carefully constructed sentences that I certainly do not want to read.”
Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.
“Why would you want to be like that, Jameson? Why would anybody?”
“Wanting has absolutely nothing to do with it.”
Mark Anthony, The Tale of the Mirror.
“What is it about collecting the old coins, Otto? Why do you like that?”
“There is no noise. None at all.”
Christopher Blasey, The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.
“Hum it all away, Alice. Just hum it away.”
Stephanie Biggers, Cat Farming in Nigeria.
Practice the science of not noticing.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
Philosophical Notions for Lease
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“My old photographs are an antidote.”
“An antidote to what?”
“To now, dear Janet. To now.”
Augustus Bligh, Crawlspace.
“I like rabbits. I mean I don’t mind them. What I mean is that I have never been harmed by a rabbit. Not that I can recall.”
Ralston Dowd, A Spot of Bother.
“You’re an actor, Susan. So, of course, we are bound to listen to you.”
Otto Klegg, The Ellipse of Uncertainty.
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