dennis scharnberg

borrowing from tomorrow

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

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

soap and water

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

Carter Winthrope,  A Treatise on Naturally Occurring Questions.

better than average

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.

thick and thin

Being an individual is such hard work.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

not quite said

But I thought that we had attained perfection.  Already.  Some time ago.  With hip-hop.

Sidney Barbuckle,  A Pocketful of Sand.

null and void

According to one theory of time, nothing ever happens suddenly.

Dalmo Etters,  The Management of Uncertainty.

types of silence

sin tense

meaning less

torn of frays

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

nothing to it

Vertiviski’s concept of “continuous dreaming” would seem to undermine most notions of rational consciousness.

Etta Hardinge,  Helena Blavatsky Reconsidered.

up my sleeve

The photograph is always already a corpse.

Mills Verbruggen,  The Isle of Dogs.

bees on crack

The remarkable thing is that so much of the [polyphony] is produced in the “sicke beaste” that is present-day England.

Winifred Hissom,  Governing the Unknowns.