dennis scharnberg

A theory of contemporary culture: the spread of shamelessness.

Royce Michaels,  The Kingdom of Ice.

Schopenhauer had been carrying on about “our dishonest visions of order”.  Thinking of modernist art, I added “and of disorder“.

Godfrey Daniel,  Inspecting the Time Domain.

[What do we call] the belief that science will prove to be true whatever we want to be true?

Evelyn Harbuckle,   The Signs of Belonging.

“I live like a hermit,” declared Hauptmann.  “I’m like a neighborhood drunk, but without the drinking.”

Rubina Malcolm,  The Black Box.

It’s not that I dislike paparrazi.  It’s that I dislike photography.

Chalmers Van Nest,  The Trivial Quadrivium.

“Naming considered as a form of child abuse,” mumbled Gregory.  Then, louder and with purpose:  “A call for criteria.  Anyone?”

Burdyce Goode,  Philosophy of Vegetables.

…the attempt to impose permanent solutions on problems that are ephemeral (or even illusory).

Malcolm Scrivener,  The Reclining of the West.

Euclid’s aliments

all is last

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Rule No. 1:  Do not quote rock ‘n’ roll lyrics.  For any reason.  (And I assume that none of the foregoing can be found in rock songs.)

Logan Nygaard,  A Treatise on Amusement.

What is wrong with this:  Marxist chemical engineering?

Axel Porphyrie,  Doing Without Knowing.