dennis scharnberg

not nearly enough

Nothing is repeatable.  Nothing.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed.,  The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

shining shifting things

When is a lie not a lie?  When it makes an audience cry.

Tyrone Sommer,  Circling the Drain.

quarto or folio

An illustration is no argument.  And bear in mind the deception of depiction.

Hill Boothby,  The Dazzling World of Almost.

do no harm

Feel the Logic

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

more thoughtless novelty

If only something that happened had not happened then.

Myrtle Mawby,  Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

abundant picture taking

What HPB really invented was that unique dimension of modernity:  boredom with the material well-being of the age.

Teresa Ravens,  The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.

states of mind

“Murder is stupid, Inspector.  That, and that alone, is my alibi.”

Hilary Fewkes,  The Banality Killings.

come up with

Ambrose avoided being intentionally meaningless.  But just barely.

Rubina Malcolm,  The Black Box.

fraught with difficulty

Making complexities seem to be clear isn’t the only thing worth doing.

Roger Sensabaugh,  A Short History of Boredom.

kick it around

Platitudes are not to be multiplied without necessity.

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.