dennis scharnberg

Once we become preoccupied with the self, there is no world.

Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.

“Insanity is just like gravity,” insisted Mr. Grimshawe.  “It is the natural structure.  One has to struggle to be sane.”

Thaddeus Crewes, Crowded Evil World.

That [polyphonic] passage is overwhelming.  Just crushing.  It seems to say, “Come home.”

Linda Talbotting, The Long List of Complaint.

What the radical seems to abhor most is common sense.  He just can’t stand it.

Clem Tartessos, Designing the Past.

The works of art have no intrinsic value.  They are simply necessary to establish the status of “artist.”  That is the important matter.  To be the artist, to be within the discourse.

Hill Boothby, The Dazzling Realm of Almost.

land  lowered

house  holed

proper  tea

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

And what is the meaning of the Statue of Liberty?  Kitsch, and nothing but kitsch.

Clem Tartessos, Designing the Past.

What the [Counter-Culture] actually unleashed was resentment.  And its companion, malice.

Lajos Munczi, Casting Shadows.

“One cannot deprive a person of his own ridiculousness,” admitted Thornton.  “That would be cruel.”

Burdyce Goode, Philosophy of Vegetables.

“How difficult it must be for them,” thought Thomas.  “To dwell day after day with their irreducible and relentless sophistication.”

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.