dennis scharnberg

Words:  a form of repression.

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

How can I even consider taking more photographs?  But that is not the question.  Here is the question:  How can I consider looking at another photograph?

Ellison Malmo,  Hypertrophy and Decline in the Visual Arts.

“Do actors really believe that we don’t think that they are acting?”  Janora was dwelling on that obnoxious commercial about the superior bedding.

Darko Rivenbark,  Snapshots.

Note to Buddha:  Along with all the other things we can’t know, we cannot know the extent of the illusion.  The notion that the world is illusory might itself be an illusion.

Christopher Valerian,  In Search of Boundary Conditions.

The crux of the Fermi Paradox is the assumption—and it is assumed—that “exploration” would be valued universally, automatically, on any planet.

Christopher Valerian,  The Management of Uncertainty.

Deborah didn’t seem to realize it, but it was as though she were saying, “A cube is a form of randomness.”

Lana Sedgewick,  A Scent of Bitter Almonds.

“The knife went in, with my fingers around the handle.”  As a confession, Nigel’s words were somewhat lacking.

Leslie M. Dow,  The Murder in the Meadow.

Little boy lost.  The world that was so familiar and so reassuring—just minutes ago—is now lost to him.  And he can never regain it.

Delbert Arbogast,  The Null Hypothesis, and Other Stories.

The two questions:  (1) Why would anyone lie? (2) Why would anyone resist lying?

Logan Nygaard,  A Treatise on Amusement.

Ideology:  an elaborate form of insincerity.

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