dennis scharnberg

on the brink

We must remember that the environment that would “influence” us includes random noise.

Hobart Shrill,  The Discontinuities of Barca Space.

out of touch

Suffering today means what tomorrow?

Melanie Oswald,  Nine-Hundred Delphic Questions.

state of uncertainty

Harrison felt that his alienation was simply more important than that experienced by someone else.

Gilbert McFadden,  A Murder in Three Parts.

the magnetic crisis

“Sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” is a redundancy.  Only the latter part needs saying.

Joscelyn Humboldt,  Do the Stomp: The Story of Rock.

the lodger within

[Crowley] did have a keen sense of the “absurdity of life.”  But a keen sense of the absurdity of himself (and his pursuits) was lacking.

Constance Euphemia,  Ordo Templi Orientis and the Corridors of Modernism.

onward and upward

Sometimes it is interesting to see idiocy carried out to its logical conclusion.

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

pretending to care

Anger is a force, not a point of view.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

ice and fire

Relativism:  An absolute.

Callista Ralph,  Alphabet Soup.

please stay awake

The rough descent through Tulku Gorge, where one trudges in and out of fog banks and where stones fall from invisible heights….

Sal Aurobindo,  The Immersion in Matter.

listen to me

Politician:  One who never stops pretending that he is not inadequate.

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