dennis scharnberg

“If that is the hair-do of a reasonable man, I will chew on a sock!”

Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.

December 7, 2019. Regarding the more or less innocent word “literally”—Won’t someone (anyone) please do the following? Print the word on a sheet of clean paper, place that inside a cake tin, and bury it six feet deep in a hardwood forest? And leave it there for at least thirty-nine years? Thanks.

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

[Geist] claims to have uncovered a total of nine rules of objects (or of “things”). Here, I present only three of these.

Hans Paulus, How Pictures Look at Us.

“But you’re not seeing it, George. That joker was being evasive by being forthcoming.”

Chase Tipton, Enjoying Prison Pizza.

About the allegories he made the usual claims—that they are complex, fascinating, like a strange puzzle, etc. But he went on to say that it was the portraits that are truly distinguished works—both those thought to be painted by Bosch himself and those by members of his circle.

Hans Paulus, How Pictures Look at Us.

It is almost impressive how much elaboration, disputation, quibbling, dissembling, arguing, posturing, legislation, disruption—even how much war—has been engendered by such a simple and direct message.

Tristram Speaker, A Book of Postulates.

Theologians have the same motivation as the philosophers: to complicate the world.

Chalmers van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

Novel: begins, bewitches, ends.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

A needed reminder: Logic says exactly nothing about the world.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

But then, as an aside, she muttered something about “the soft harm of professor Derrida.”

Stoke Twombly, The Tragedians.