dennis scharnberg

“Perfect” is a word that we should use more and more.

Benjamin Alexis,  Thriving Under the Influence.

“When engaged in reading a text, don’t we have a basic right to know what looms ahead of us?  In the text?  For, what if it should disturb us when we do encounter it?”

Flavia Gringarten,  A Picture Holds Me Captive.

Esterhase’s Theorem:  Our ignorance can be consistent or it can exhibit completeness, but not both.

Tyler Boots,  Axios Means Worthy.

We inhabit a culture in which comedians lecture us about revolution.  Unknowingly.

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

…the usual scant consideration given to the raggedness of the fossil record.

Kendall Landover,  The Ferocity of the Daffodils.

The expression “social construct” imputes a lower status to anything that has been constructed.

Octavius Kinder,  A Sustainable Unhappiness.

The human sense of smell is strictly mammalian.  And that’s the trouble with it, isn’t it?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

“Rock musicians are here!”  Translation:  Short guys are here (with their big egos and big libidos).

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

  Destroy bourgeois culture (and capitalism), and along comes the Revolution (and justice and equality).  That’s what the classical Marxist believed.  And we have killed our culture.  But there is no “revolution”—only a relentless ongoing decay.

Clifford Parkening, How the Moon Doth Sway.

[Marx] came to regard his relentless hatred as not hate but a particularly intense form of compassion.

Godfrey Daniel,  Inspecting the Time Domain.