dennis scharnberg

fall of stones

How to locate common sense?  Just look for those notions that seem unpopular.

Hugh Drummond,  A Canine World.

magnificent safe space

At least Kandinsky et alia made no attempt to continue in the way of van der Weyden and Durer and Caravaggio and de la Tour.  For this we owe a profound debt to Modernism.  Just think of the embarrassment prevented.

Crispin Trove,  The Viewer as Pest.

all is two

To characterize Henry Miller’s writing, Spalding needed but a single word: persistent.

Anthony Scowling,  The Beat Paradigm.

pull yourself together

—I would advise her to stay away from the nastiness.  Avoid it completely.

—Nastiness?

—The internet, old boy.  The Web!

Clifford Apogee,  Draining the Pools—A Collection of Stories.

bingo bango bongo

Any conflicting perspective was regarded by Melanie as a personal assault, of unspeakable cruelty.

Timothy Waldo,  The Important Things.

kicking the can

“Let us replace things that work with things that feel good.”

Will Bestwyck,  Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

pick a card

Her face was pallid, as she lurked about on the lawn.  But that’s what moonlight will do.

Bertrand Thorne,  A Death on the Manor.

down the corridor

“Oh, not at all Jane.  I’m glad that I cannot remember it.  That way, I might be surprised.”

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

it is done

Societal order cannot be purchased.

Seth Palingroom,  The Philosophies of Cultural Exhaustion.

on the prowl

Deconstruction is the insinuating warm-up act for destruction plain and simple.  The ultimate intention is to rid.

Nigel Swarbrick,  A Bootful of Nails.