dennis scharnberg

Let’s remove the word “very” from our usage.  We should discard it.  Eradicate it.

Nathaniel Bumppo,  The Final Word.

Hedonism:  contempt for the body, expressed indirectly.

W. Karl Bavinger,  The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.

Membership in a category is what determines all.  The Marxian frolic.

Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.

The people who make dramatic claims on the basis of “cultural relativism” seldom show any willingness to act on those claims.

Stefan Jannings,  Prolegomena to Any Future.

“Don’t let your fear take control of you,” said Colin.  “Let it be a part only.  Part and parcel.”

Harrison Wilmer,  The Michaelmas Killings.

Not that God is a trickster, but that we are delusional.

John James Jasper,  Essays on the Mulberry Bush.

—His killer could be a woman.

—Yes.  But, surely, anyone’s killer could be a woman.

Grace Philippi,  The Bliss City Murders.

Daniel found that he could not say the phrase “publishing house” without laughing.

Rubina Malcolm,  The Black Box.

Gibbon wrote of  “…the ease with which intellect and will can be unhorsed and disarmed.”  But what intellect?  What will?

Enos Slaughter, Speaking Out of the Ground.

“I’d like to pet a grizzly bear one day.  Right on the head.  A dead bear, of course.”  Can you find three things wrong with that statement?

Charles Pfanning,  Mild Interrogations.