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In her writing, Patricia was quite unafraid of the big issues—love, death, truth, art,….

Priscilla Onkers,  All About Edward.

Politics:  a particularly vile branch of the entertainment industry.

Callista Ralph,  Alphabet Soup.

More odd expressions:

—Who wears the shoes in that family?

—crazy as a button

—rigorous degradation

—into the Palladian gloom

—explaining the explanation

—unremarkable orbit

—pretty as a book

—face down in dirty snow

—a nether place that wants tending

—a reasonable member of the general community

Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty,  A Book of Lists.

“Western culture is irremediably evil.”  Alyssa typed these words with great confidence, and then pressed “Send.”

Delbert Arbogast,  The Null Hypothesis and Other Stories.

We didn’t invent language.  It just sort of came along and inhabited us.

Hans Baldung-Grien,  Post-Modernist Moments.

It’s still modernism.  It’s still rubbish.  It is what we are stuck with.

Ellison Malmo,  Hypertrophy and Decline in the Visual Arts.

Can we escape an actual crisis by redefining words?

Randolph Jute,  The Prime Numbers.

—Is this parody, or just stupidity?

—Those words were written by a journalist, Mr. Wainwright.  You know it can’t be stupidity.

Brendan Shaughnessy,  Lobsters and Clams—A Novel.

Reality:  an escape from politics.

Callista Ralph,  Alphabet Soup.

Can anything that is factual be interesting?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.