dennis scharnberg

this day dawes

Facile foolish pseudoarguments, in favor of something ill-advised.  That’s what Jim had to offer.  All the morning long.

Will Davies,  She Would If She Could.

wanting to want

It is no longer a matter of challenging the viewer; it is no longer adversarial at all.  The artist now simply investigates cultural codes, and reports to the spectator concerning what was found.

Crispin Trove,  The Viewer as Pest.

turn on light

They don’t want to improve the world, they want to change it.  They wish to destroy.

Hunter Hogarth,  Raised by Wolves.

truly majestic work

Society should not encourage mental illness.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

boundaries don’t exist

Gravity is a social construct.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

all the trimmings

“It appears,” said Mr. Balfour, “that she is objecting to physics!”

Corliss Archer,  Boarding the Crazy Train.

row your boat

“If there really is a world.  And we don’t know that, do we?  I mean, we are all skeptics of course.  But if there is a world, and if that world has a center, then that, old boy, is where Naomi dwells.”

Will Southey,  Government Cheese, the Novel.

an aggressive scent

“And how do we find out about the present?”  No one spoke, so he answered his own question: “We wait.”

Pryce Cummings,  Rattle Box.

wake and bake

“For what it’s worth, Katie, I think that our ancestors are profoundly embarrassed by us.”

Lawrence Bird,  Make It So.

bats for sale

The house that you dwell in is your box.  Your trunk.  A seaman’s chest.

Quentin Drabb,  Ebenezer’s Untold Tales.