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I assume, therefore I am.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Epitaph for rock music, No. 1: It Was Adequate.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

Palmer didn’t oppose destruction of the paintings. But he did insist that they be destroyed properly.

Burnham Woode, A Circle of Radiance.

Epitaph for rock music, No. 4 (comedy version): We Were Not Worthy.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

Epitaph for rock music, No. 3: They Could Do No Better.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

Of course, there are a great many questions. But it all comes down to this: Was Kandinsky really trying?

Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.

“He has sparkle smarts, Gwen. That boomer thing—fancy schools, lots of promotion, friendly media. But he’s really just a hack writer.”

Burnham Woode, A Circle of Radiance.

“No, sir,” said Withers. “I had never before heard a rock band shout with such virile sincerity.”

Bertrand Thorne, A Death on the Manor.

“Yes, Brenda, I do read Hegel. From time to time. But it’s only for the laughs.”

Hollis Beddoes, Counting the Magpies.

We do not have reason. Something we have been led to call “reason” has us.

Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.