dennis scharnberg

a thorny situation

There is no penalty for anything.  For being wrong.  For wronging.  Nothing.

Titus Musgrave,  Carthago Delenda Est.

pale wildwood flower

Buzz had made a mistake.  A fairly big one.  He claims now that he was unable not to.

Nicholas Crisp,  Unfit for Murder.

almost didn’t happen

Any attempt to refute X serves only to validate X.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

calling all cars

A nihilist is someone waving a banner.

Cedric Plumm,  My Name Is Cynthia.

in the trees

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

Desmond Urquhart,  The Unsocial Sciences.

finding a mirror

Nothing is astonishing.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

dash of salt

“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.

rolling the dice

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

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

bread and honey

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.

sales and service

be  leaf

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.