Small bird flying low missed by inches
Could feel its breeze
Went for a doze in shade.
Ann Sensabaugh, The Faulty Haiku.
Sculpture at the “heroic scale” is inevitably ludicrous. Let’s stop pretending.
Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.
“You cannot talk about everything at once. We are condemned to be at least somewhat analytical.”
Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.
“Here are a few more words to consider abandoning: amid, daunting, remiss, very, literally. Especially that last one, John.”
Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.
“I don’t know what those things are,” gushed Lynda, “but they certainly are well-designed.”
Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.
If a word or phrase can be isolated as a manifestation of the internet era, I simply ignore it. And I never use it.
Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.
Todd is being “welcomed” by Windows, and he has an unfortunate tendency to get a bit misty at such moments.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
Job: an activity that can be audited by a manager.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Can you find anything in your surroundings at this moment that is neither an image nor the result of an image? If so, you are probably not in a city.
Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.
“I’ll never forget this for the rest of my life,” the on-site reporter declared. “I’ll never forget anything for the rest of my life,” thought I.
Carson Drew, The Case of the Purloined Tiger.
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