dennis scharnberg

How many decisions fail to be poor decisions?

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“If you intend to strangle a person, the gentlemanly approach would be to apologize to the victim beforehand.”

Will Bestwyck, Letters from Mr. Palindrome.

Trumpet, sir? How say I, nay.

It were a strumpet thou didst play.

Thomas Faraday, The Maiden’s Complainte. (1586)

“Oh, look Allison. On the pedestal. It’s Shiva the Destroyer. My personal favorite.”

Theo Darden, Watching for Earthquakes.

“But what assumptions underlie those assumptions, sir?”

Edward Valerian, The Empire Is Maintained.

Theory is distance.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

November 3, 2019. I had fun with a female. I got high. I enjoyed exciting food, and wine in stemware. I watched a charming French film. I guess that’s all. [Possibly fiction.]

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

It’s as though the theory has the primacy, and the physical reality has no choice but to follow along.

Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.

LEAR: What makes living possible?

FOOL: Insurance.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

“Damn it, George, I demand to know what that thing is. And why you have hung it on the wall!”

“It is expression, Elisabeth. It’s called expression.”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Happy.