dennis scharnberg

dire fever dream

“Can we create a secret language?”  A better question:  Can we avoid it?

Bertrand Stayne,  Styles of Pretense.

way of talking

The decision to be an individual leads to what?  To nothing.  Certainly not to individuality.

Mills Verbruggen,  The Isle of Dogs.

pull the knot

Nobody means anything.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

elastic modulus tensor

Regard the graffiti artist as a paradigm.  But of what?

Gunnar Grimes,  The Persistence of Vision.

getting all misty

A view came to be held that the Revolution is cumulative, not sudden and dramatic.

Benedict Tuttle,  Styles of Mendacity: The Life and Work of Max Horkheimer.

more stopped clocks

Ella meant tarry.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

pebble in shoe

It is well-being that makes us stupid.  I fear that this is inevitable.

Rula Tebb, ed.,  Remarks Attributed to the Late Great Hubert Ambrose.

on the spot

“I have earned the emotions that I express,” thought Linda.

Anderson Culpis,  Rex and Rhonda—A Short Novel.

the buried city

An afternoon’s task:  Write down on a sheet of paper a numbered list of all the things you know.

Sidney Barbuckle,  A Pocketful of Sand.

wear and tear

Someone must determine which stereotypes are acceptable.  Now, who will that be?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.