dennis scharnberg

richer smarter better

It’s not that the internet will be seen as the corridor through which degradation was brought upon us.  It will be multiple corridors and multiple degradations.

Clifford Parkening,  How the Moon Doth Sway.

join the tribe

Ideally, nothing should be “like something out of Kafka.”

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

please stop noticing

Question:  By giving a magical name to everything and everyone in his world, what did [Crowley] accomplish?  Answer:  A long list of alternative names.

Kelso Metternick,  All the Right Questions.

around the clock

I’m not interested in being right.  I am interested in being clear about what I detest.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

breathless and urgent

Self-Absorbed:  A state of being in which one is able to rationalize anything.

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

the hidden hand

You must dramatize your alienation.  Let them know about it.

Nicholas James Barnarby, ed.,  Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.

lobsters and clams

If it is false, then it cannot be true.  Unless it is yet another instance of that false truth that we find so perplexing and aggravating.

Benedict Symes,  A Meditation on Periodicity.

nobody is important

[Crowley] claims to have witnessed the telekinetic repair of a shattered teacup.  All this in a darkened room in an old home on the outskirts of Stuttgart.

Cyrus Donato,  Nodes and Internodes.

if need be

Bohemian:  One who thinks of himself as being a “bohemian.”  (See also Hipster.)

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

twilight’s last gleaming

deacons trucked

sins sear

loot tenant

gin your wine

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.