dennis scharnberg

get in touch

Is there anyone alive today who seriously believes that we have not “spoken” enough?

Gaylord Perry III,  The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

good clean fun

[Vickering] confessed that, upon viewing a number of modernist paintings, he would sometimes feel a distinct nausea.  And he wondered whether that might be an intention of the works.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

your own thing

What do we call the attempt to abolish something that does not exist?

Melanie Oswald,  Nine-Hundred Delphic Questions.

facts are feelings

…and again he draws our attention to “the thin film of false reality.”

Jennifer Turkwood, ed.,  Journals and Letters of Tomas Tinturra.

borrowing from tomorrow

Beware of one who claims that he can feel the world turning.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

soap and water

The formulation of a sentence is always grounded in habit, in the mechanical.

Carter Winthrope,  A Treatise on Naturally Occurring Questions.

better than average

What did the Counter-Culture [of the 1960s/1970s] deliver to us?  A world in which the jokes write themselves.

Rollin Mungo,  Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

thick and thin

Being an individual is such hard work.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

not quite said

But I thought that we had attained perfection.  Already.  Some time ago.  With hip-hop.

Sidney Barbuckle,  A Pocketful of Sand.

null and void

According to one theory of time, nothing ever happens suddenly.

Dalmo Etters,  The Management of Uncertainty.