dennis scharnberg

31 December, 2012.   My nomination for most-abused word of the year:  “scientific”.

Reginald Boyington,  Dear Dreadful Diary.

When we are talking about picturing we are picturing.

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

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Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Logic hovers.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

…to compile a list, presumably a very long list, of the victims of James Madison.

Desmond Urquhart,  The Unsocial Sciences.

An endless ongoing dreary happiness was poor Ellen’s lot.

Roone Giddings,  An Arrangement of Particles.

“Your world,” said Robbins calmly, “is upholstered with a fabric of pretty lies.”

Buster Kelso,  Crimes Against Music.

Good Is Better Than Evil

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

Chadwick was willing—one might say eager—to engage in mocking the knowledge of experts.

Mark Anthony,  The Tale of the Mirror.

“Murder is terrible,” said Whittaker in a low voice.  “Murder dispels all of our illusions.”

Harrison Wilmer,  The Michaelmas Killer.