dennis scharnberg

lost wax method

“Please try to remember that Annette uses language as though words possess only emotional content.”

Chadwick Graves,  One Damned Thing After Another.

arrogant and cowardly

Nobody is bored.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

private parts parade

“The human pretense to knowing, Michael.  Now, that is comedy!”

Silas Burbage,  The Adventurous Half-Life of Buddy Boyo.

more cute architecture

“Surely it may be said, at this late date, that an orifice is a social construct and nothing more.”

Will Bestwyck,  Letters From Mr. Palindrome.

elephant in room

“If you actually don’t care, Hawkins, why bother to say so?”

Roone Giddings,  An Arrangement of Particles.

listening to voices

Harry had come to regard his inability to get rid of things as a sort of talent.

Corliss Archer,  Boarding the Crazy Train.

humor less ness

“She’s out with one of her poet friends.  Where, I don’t know.”

Diana Moone,  Living Well.

barrel of fish

“What an obedient author!” exclaimed Collins, upon finally reading Ulysses.

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

so very now

Withdrawal from a world of illusion is illusion.

Hunter Hogarth,  Raised by Wolves.

under the shadow

“Your thinking is untidy, Philip,” said Otto in the dead fish voice.

Pryce Cummings,  Rattle Box.