dennis scharnberg

To Raymond, the notion of consequences was like some silly rumor.

Gareth Spence, She Braved All.

“Oh come now, Brenda.  You know that Gavin is a creative artist.  His actions require no justification.”

Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.

“The blows appear to have been delivered with a 2 x 4.  But it could have been a 4 x 4.”

Ernestine Stanley, The Case of the Cautious Cadaver.

“I went insane once.  Or very nearly.  It could happen again.”  Was this a warning on Gregory’s part?  Or was it his idea of entertainment?

Gareth Spence,  She Braved All.

The title of Bernadette’s book was Shattering Stereotypes.  But Jack wasn’t sure whether it concerned stereotypes of “shattering” or the prospect of doing harm to stereotypes.  Only reading would tell.

Devona Twilly, Shallowness, a Novel.

“My guess is that he knew that he looked like a weasel.  And that he wished to—I don’t know—sort of accentuate that.  With the slick hair-do.  And the rest of it.”

Glynnis Hoving, The Multiplication Murders.

Historian, please ask this question:  How did long-march cultural Marxism come to be the standard?

Tate LaBianca, Four and Twenty Blackbirds.

…while we slumber so enjoyably.

Lawrence Bird, Make It So.

Alack, good sir, he thinketh himself a shell-fish.

Thomas Gallowes, Titus Moans.   (1694)

Taking a test is strictly irrational.  Even though one endeavors to be rational within the test.

Aaron Flynders, A Theory of Everything.