“Oh, what a quaint and curious daughter we have yielded to this world!” Edna would sometimes write elaborate scripts for herself, and then, out of the blue, she would spring those words upon her—sometimes startled— friends and acquaintances.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
“What a truly wonderful moment this is!” That was Edna again, reading from her script.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
The term postmodernism is just a tag. It refers to the state of no longer having a culture. In place of culture one now has an imperative: Increase “pleasure” and decrease “pain”. With pleasure and pain being defined in the moment, and by the user.
Cedric Plumm, All Roads Lead.
World Wide Web: a clever way to burn bridges.
Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.
“I want to be the best criminal I can be.” That’s what Todd told himself every morning. That or something like it. And not every morning, but fairly often.
Adrian Caliban, The Magnificent Egglestons.
Doubt is an old philosophical joke. And the word “reasonable” is promotional language.
Cedric Plumm, All Roads Lead.
Loss.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
And where does “thinking” take us? To a casual leftism and to Zen.
Addison West, The Ontology of Destruction.
“Sir, I do not often use the expression shan’t, but I can assure you that I shan’t desist from using it in this case.”
Edward Valerian, The Empire Is Maintained.
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