dennis scharnberg

it’s called something

The Web not only invites and enables, it almost pressures people into expressing themselves.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.

hide and seek

Let’s not blame the liar.  Perhaps she needed to lie.

Giles Coxe-Coburn,  Belief in Insects.

when everything sleeps

There are moments within these harmonies that offer a glimpse—strictly transient—into a deep clarity.  A clarity that is accessible in no other way.

Thomas Metterling,  Johannes Ockeghem and His Age.

continuity of comfort

“If one embraces modernism—say James Joyce or Mondrian—one is elevating oneself.”  Absolutely not, sir!  Any elevation is pure illusion.  Modernism is a plunge.

Hill Boothby,  Essays on Disappointment Management.

the inky depths

merchant dice

three weird cisterns

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

toil and trouble

Let’s go through it once again.  What does society produce? O-r-d-e-r.

Isaac Twist,  A Primer of Posturing.

better than nothing

The popular culture presents a relentless permission to sink into narcissism.  To the mirrors we go!

Gunther Pinks,  A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

an antisocial construct

torn of frays

in dependent claws

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

rule of silence

“Doctor.  Oh, Doctor!  I am feeling anxious.  Is there a pill for that?”

Lane Vivian,  A Knob of Old Cheese and Eight More Tales.

tossing and turning

“If ever there was theatre, it is saying sir.”

Christopher Grantham,  The Ancient Felonie. (1618)

Priscilla Fanning, ed.,  Fragments From the Jacobean Stage.