dennis scharnberg

along the riverrun

I am at payne for all that, sir!

Make it soone!

Make it soone!

Titus Oates,  The Maiden’s Missive.     (1587)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Elizabethan Stage.

kit and kaboodle

“Well, that is quite a thought Alice.  Quite a thought indeed!”

Trent Bendix,  Patricia Knows Best.

suit of clothes

A big part of being respectable today is drawing the line between yourself and those who are not respectable.  It is about drawing lines so that others can see where you are.  It is spatial.

Winston Joyce,  Rational Agent Theory.

up and scoot

Some general statements are true.

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

listen to me

“Post facto statements about intentions are not reliable, Amelia.  We are not made that way.”

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

hat in hand

1 plus 1 equals 3 (for large values of 1).

Godfrey Tooke,  Collected Aphorisms.

free verse slang

“The indeterminate future beckons, my dear Lydia.  You must needs approach it, and look it close in the eye.”

Samuel Wedder,  The Adventuress.      (1763)

scraping the bottom

“…and that’s where I stumbled upon the dead man.”

“Dead man?”

“Yes.”

“And only one?”

“Just one.  Yes.”

Allison Cowling,  Night of the Detective.

light in window

Yes, it appears to be a labyrinth.  But since it is only a text, it is not a labyrinth.  We cannot be truly lost in mere words.  No monster—no Minotaur— awaits us in words.  Nevertheless, thank you professor Derrida!

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.

watching the fire

Sondra was convinced that irony could work only one way—to mock anything traditional.  No one (she was sure of it) would even think of mocking modernity.

Mark Anthony,  The Tale of the Mirror.