dennis scharnberg

Whom do I blame when things go well?

Otis Oswald,  900 Delphic Questions.

The idea was to write small, yes.  But to move it all beyond—or outside of—the potential oppressiveness of the free-standing aphorism.

Jason Starling, Scale in Literature.

Sometimes I feel tired.  And that makes things even worse.  Because, of course, I haven’t done anything.

Axel Porphyrie,  Doing Without Knowing.

Espousing “cultural relativism” is a common form of insincerity.

Ambrose Glendenning,  The Crumbling Modern Buildings.

Their critique of the culture is itself a manifestation of the frivolity of that culture.

Hans Baldung-Grien,  Postmodernist Moments.

Culture:  a set of instructions concerning what to notice and what not to notice.

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

The world I dwell in is one in which argument can gain no foothold.  It is all about sentiment, about strategies of feeling.

P. J. Cahoon,  The History of Crime.

We have a culture.  That does not mean that we know how to design a culture.

Nigel Swoone,  Old Theories of Time.

Regardless of subject, digital photos always end up looking like ads.

Roger Hedgecook,  Stolen and Sold for Parts.

What is most difficult?  To shake oneself free from something one has read.

Clifford O. Mounce,  A Portable Darkness.