dennis scharnberg

sin tense

meaning less

torn of frays

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Vertiviski’s concept of “continuous dreaming” would seem to undermine most notions of rational consciousness.

Etta Hardinge,  Helena Blavatsky Reconsidered.

The photograph is always already a corpse.

Mills Verbruggen,  The Isle of Dogs.

The remarkable thing is that so much of the [polyphony] is produced in the “sicke beaste” that is present-day England.

Winifred Hissom,  Governing the Unknowns.

Waking:  the process—sometimes instantaneous—of remembering oneself.

Royce Cuttberth,  The Kingdom of Ice.

Is this the island where Emelia Earhart spent her last moments?  And what were those moments like?  Did she have enough time to experience sex in some way?

Nolan Grayshott,  The Giants of Popular Culture.

His treatment [of the material] presented an abundance of “perhaps” and “it would seem” and “probably”—all of those wobbly wishful expressions.  Why would a person write such stuff?  Toward what benefit?

Stephanie Muhundro,  Books and Doors.

The reality, in all cases, is overwhelming.  The description can be only anemic.

Clinton Burdyce,  Making Verbs From Nouns.

The dream of science:  that things can be isolated.

Benedict Symes,  A Meditation on Periodicity.

If we take architecture as a form of writing—and what could be more natural than to do so?—then, yes, the Doric order does present perplexities.

Sloane Daniels,  The Ways of Undoing.