dennis scharnberg

in yellow stockings

“The erasure of virtue,” groaned Williams.  “And the tireless promotion of vice.”

Alberta Traywick, Susannah’s Accident.

like clucking hens

Nobody has hated anything on this earth as much as Karl Marx hated the Proletariat.

Rollo Case, Styles of Pretense.

purely theatrical rage

Big lies eat little lies.

Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.

extreme mood change

I will put it lightly:  Ours is not a golden age of literature.

Clifford O. Mounce, A Portable Darkness.

state of fury

Theodore’s gift, his one true talent, was that of obscuring the truth.

Benedict Elder, A Cosmopolitan Paradise.

more creeping about

“Tell me one thing, Toby,” demanded Gettings.  “Who follows advice?  Who ever did?”

Priscilla Onkers, All About Edward.

handmaidens and such

“Kathleen, you are uninteresting.  I am sorry, of course, but it needed saying.  I realize that, since you are an artist, it must come as a shock.”

Trent Bendix, Grieving for Margaret.

end of shame

“I’m the one on the outside,” said  Mr. Baldrick.  “I am the one begging my Creator to assure me that I actually dwell in 13th century Bavaria and that I am just having a particularly long nightmare (and that I will wake soon).”

Mark Anthony,  The Tale of the Mirror.

celebration of awfulness

We cannot examine everything closely.

Enos Slaughter, Speaking Out of the Ground.

ill at ease

To do:  Turn A into not-A, but keep referring to it as A.

Hilbert Kaasa, The Fabian Way.