Edwin’s New Year’s Resolution was simple, perhaps even somewhat blunt: “to be less accommodating.”
Nicholas Bruhns, Otto the Magpie.
A stream of words—that’s what “the past” is.
Roger Sensabaugh, A Short History of Boredom.
“Don’t be silly, Carla. Any philosopher will tell you just how difficult it is to know something.”
Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.
Postmodernism: a vicious frolic.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
“Well, Franklin, I do think that I made a small mistake.”
“How small?”
“Very small. Miniscule, I’d say. Trifling. Piddling, actually. A mere particle of a mistake.”
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
We engage with matter foolishly.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
The critic is stating the obvious, but does this as though he is actually noticing something. That is the grift. Like when Kenneth Clark exhorts us to “accept” the notion that the Arena Chapel frescoes are immensely important.
Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.
“I am a poet, sir. Do I write poems? No. I contemplate writing poetry. I think about it long and hard. And then I say, ‘No’. In no uncertain terms. The word is No.”
Crosby Fields, A Reasonable Amount of Trouble.
We fail to give sufficient scope to the word illusion.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
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