dennis scharnberg

Question:  What is dangerous, first and foremost?

Answer:  Believing people.

Maynard Bittle,  Order in Magnitude.

Dishonesty is the natural order; honesty must be attained.

Edward Beverly III,  Our Manifold Defects.

Is there anyone alive today who seriously believes that we have not “spoken” enough?

Gaylord Perry III,  The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

[Vickering] confessed that, upon viewing a number of modernist paintings, he would sometimes feel a distinct nausea.  And he wondered whether that might be an intention of the works.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

What do we call the attempt to abolish something that does not exist?

Melanie Oswald,  Nine-Hundred Delphic Questions.

…and again he draws our attention to “the thin film of false reality.”

Jennifer Turkwood, ed.,  Journals and Letters of Tomas Tinturra.

Beware of one who claims that he can feel the world turning.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

The formulation of a sentence is always grounded in habit, in the mechanical.

Carter Winthrope,  A Treatise on Naturally Occurring Questions.

What did the Counter-Culture [of the 1960s/1970s] deliver to us?  A world in which the jokes write themselves.

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

Being an individual is such hard work.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.