Sophistication: an elaborate form of hollowness; an elaborate treatment of the surface.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
I think that evading a thought is not the same as having a thought. But these days, who can say?
Tanner Faust, A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.
heel on earth
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
The postmodernist wants to peel away all the layers, in order to penetrate to the very surface of things.
Hester Stills, The New Academy.
How will the artist ever come to regard the art gallery as the mere historical gesture that it is?
Stacie Hughes, The Slumber of Conceptual Art.
Lawrence listened to the woman attentively. Foolishly.
Allison Cowling, Night of the Detective.
Fiction: the use of words.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
In the oldest Puntecan texts—which exist only as fragments—there is repeated mention of mingata wellensi. This has been translated roughly as “music of wonders”. Of course, we have no idea what this phrase refers to.
Bradford Kinsella, Resurrection of Language.
In Algorithms We Trust
Terence Theodore, Proverbs for a New Era.
“I want to be good at something. Isn’t there some way I can just buy that?” Sean was keen to get on in life.
Darko Rivenbark, Snapshots.
