dennis scharnberg

please sit down

What is the source of American morals for the past forty years?  A sentimental novel called To Kill a Mockingbird.

Lucius Pym,  Soft Sophistication.

his purple sox

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.

hesitating becomes you

Destruction is easy.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

cloud cuckoo land

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.

hey cold beer

The rules are simple.  Here they are:  (1) embrace falsehood; (2) deny the obvious.

Lucius Pym,  Soft Sophistication.

another blue sky

The internet transforms everything in the world into a spectator sport.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.

spheres of plasma

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.

came saw conquered

“It’s not lurid or extravagant.  It’s actually mundane.  It is humdrum.  That’s it, Phyllis.  Humdrum nihilism.”

Benedict Elder,  A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

really convincing soup

Without Gagosian, nothing.

Lucius Pym,  Soft Sophistication.

gathering appropriate material

The beast is yet to come.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.