“I didn’t pay attention. I didn’t feel like it. Not this time. Maybe next time.” Hollis, you see, liked to demonstrate how easy it is just to glide along.
Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.
He did not mock the TV. Nor did he shout at it. Instead, Colin taunted the TV. In a cruel and hateful fashion.
Lawrence Bird, Make It So.
Our novels do not capture the world, or describe it. They merely add stuff to the world. More novels added.
Pamela Hrothgar, No Stone Unturned.
Ignore Anything
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
Albert wishes to be admired by his contemporaries. There is no doubt about that. But this question remains: Why?
Stephanie Biggers, Cat Farming in Nigeria.
We can never see now what we have now. This always entails the backwards glance (and disappointment).
Robin Christopher, The Incantation Theory of Historical Truth.
Assertion is just wind; a document is a piece of paper; and politics is the shell game.
Hamilton Cosgrave, Essays on the Mulberry Bush.
Unlike knowledge, ignorance is in all cases an immensity.
Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.
Probability: an algebraic scheme understood by no one.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
Remembering does not pay. What is rewarded in today’s culture is forgetting. One’s ability to forget.
Titus Musgrave, Carthago Delenda Est.
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