dennis scharnberg

A nihilist is someone waving a banner.

Cedric Plumm,  My Name Is Cynthia.

The desire to punish the past for not thinking as we do.  For not being us.

Desmond Urquhart,  The Unsocial Sciences.

Nothing is astonishing.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

“No, Jack.  She said that her employees “expressed anger” about it.  And what the hell does that mean?  Were they angry, or what?”

Bertram Worcester,  The Smiling Killer.

Wasn’t it LW who claimed that logic was “like humming a tune”?

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

It’s quibbling to say that there is no “modernism” left in contemporary art.  There is, in fact, nothing left in contemporary art.

Crispin Trove,  The Viewer As Pest.

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Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

At one point in the interview, Carson admitted that the central method of his con was to demand ten thousand dollars but be willing to settle for five.

Nicholas Crisp,  Unfit for Murder.

“The notion that reality is an idea, Eleanor.  That was a doorway to never-ending misery.”

Will Bestwyck,  Letters From Mr. Palindrome.

“No, sir, he was not quite smiling.  But it was close.  It was very close to that.  Nearly smiling, I’d say.”

Carla Marks,  The Murder Matter.