dennis scharnberg

With postmodernism, irony becomes a humdrum commodity.

Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.

…our feare being so busie

in this season.

Roger Pym,  The Lady in Lace.    (1621)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.

“And if it is the phone that is using you, Eleanor?  What then?”

Mark Anthony, The Tale of the Mirror.

…like the boy who peeped

After a birde her neste in the bush….

Anthony Burchfield,  Miranda’s Disguise.   (1619)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.

“…he is condemned to be a postmodernist.  There is nothing else he can be.  It is just that hopeless.”

Jonathan Steed,  Down Under.

…there appears to be no limit on the number of ways one can be wrong.

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

An hundred weeping eyes

shall prove lacking

For thy substantial neede.

Anthony Byrchfield,  The Five Golden Dayes.    (1590)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Elizabethan Stage.

…drive them, sir, as

So many wilde beastes.

Samuel Wyllkins,  The Sexton’s Dreame.     (1622)

Priscilla Fanning,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.

Summerly’s ascent to mediocrity hinged on the efforts of several benefactors.  Not the least of these was a Mr. William Davy.

Nicholas Crisp,  A Suitcase Fell on Her Head.

What was it about Theodor [Adorno] that enabled him always to have the worst ideas in the world?

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.