dennis scharnberg

Live then, not now.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

Explain to the dog why he should stop barking.

Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.

Entropy does not concern randomness or chaos; it concerns pointlessness.

Gilbert Ravening, The Phantom of Mechanical Consistency.

Mrs. Fitzwilliam watched the glowing embers in a mistrustful manner….

Ruth Ledgerwood, Death by Logic.

Economists embrace simple models not because the models are correct or accurate but because the economists can grasp them.

Paul Uccelo, The Enigma of the Box.

A European of 1907 had more in common with one of 1307 than with one of our kind.  That is high praise.

Gaylord Perry III, The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

“Living is relentless distraction,” Mr. Ellison retorted.  “That is life today.”

Ford Blasey,  The Perplexity of the Two Green Doors.

“Now, Mr. Alden, tell me what comes to mind when I say the word internet.”

       “Silly.  Silly little kids.”

Trevor Smalling, Pathological Altruism, a Novel.

“When our economy collapses,” said Professor Tulpp, “and when social order begins to unravel, here is what to do: Turn to the novelists; they will show us the way ahead.”

Chadwick Graves, The Unpunished.

“Reality can be disappointing to those who come to know it initially through photographs on the internet.”

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.