dennis scharnberg

nothing is linear

The only interest left in photography:  to dwell on what is outside the frame (guessing, musing, dreaming, wondering….).

Roger Sensabaugh,  A Short History of Boredom.

spending more time

The real component of the torsional compliance vanishes at the resonance, and the imaginary portion is negative when the mode is linearly stable, approaching negative infinity toward the instability boundary.

Dieter Borst,  The Mathematics of Elasticity.

bird of night

The contingency of particles:  They require space.

Gilbert Ravening,  The Phantom of Mechanical Consistency.

believe really hard

Do not give up on rock ‘n’ roll.  Ever.  For to do so is to lose an entire world. And, surely, any world is worth preserving.

Gunther Pinks,  A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.

on the outside

It is the past, not the future, that is predestined.

Olmstead Trent III,  The History of Objects.

ellipse of uncertainty

The internet will eventually be shown to have been murderous, all along.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From Cauldron.

living in luxury

118. What possible futures do we want to prevent?

Otis Oswald,  900 Delphic Questions.

an identified something

“The decedent’s head was hammered, sir.  Repeatedly.  And with method.”

Catriona Ravens,  The Fallacy Murders.

cowardice for sale

Entirely too much attention is given to what we do.  We need to focus far more on the order in which we do things.  What would be the best order?

Hill Boothby,  The Dazzling Realm of Almost.

book of matches

“We’re sorry, Miss.  But it’s like I said before—windy night, shrubs scraping at the glass, all kinds of noise.  It’s probably just your imagination.”

Carla Marks,  The Murder Matter.