dennis scharnberg

the Wright side of history

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Yes, Janice, I am secretive.  That’s because when I neglect being secretive I always end up being bitterly disappointed.”

Ralston Dowd,  A Spot of Bother.

“It just seems to me,” said William, “that we ought to be able to talk about a football match without using the term iteration.”

Charles Jeffrey Yett,  Writing in Miniature—Vol. 3.

“But I don’t want an audience, Birdie.  Not even a small one.  Better dead than read!  That’s what I say.”

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

Lennonism.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

asp  ire

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Of course Jamison was able to fly in his dreams,” said Thornhill.  “But it was a silly way of flying.  And it was no damned good.”

Otto Klegg,  The Ellipse of Uncertainty.

It is all about sophistication.  That is the actual commodity, not the fiction itself.

Alice Trinculo,  Speaking to Sparrows.

mallets aforethought

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

The burden with Fellini is that you’ve got to watch him.  You’ve got to watch him all the time.  Otherwise he’ll find a way to drag circus clowns into the thing.

Jeremy Breedlove,  A Sardonic View of the Movies.