dennis scharnberg

Question:  What do we not want to hear about?

Answer:  Our dependencies.

Kelso Metternick,  All the Right Questions.

the moaning of life

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

It’s not a lie if you believe it.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

Intelligence:  A measure of how many illusions one can recognize, acknowledge, contend with.

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

“Deconstruction” is a frivolity that is much prized in an increasingly frivolous society.  Hint:  If you want to find out about the real world, you do not consult Professor Derrida.

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

Questionnaire:  a way to make the leaves seem to rustle.

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

That you are willing to use logic and fact on certain issues means that you are awful.

Rollo Marquardt,  Dwelling in the Cupcake World.

It’s not that we hugely exaggerate the significance of modernist art.  It’s as if we cannot risk not doing so.

Hamilton Howlisch,  A New Coat of Paint.

The problem with the work of art as heroic act is that it cannot remain that.  Listen to a Mile Davis recording from the late 1950s, and listen again.  Before long you will be humming it like a tune.

Maynard Bittle,  Order in Magnitude.

He thinks that life is a series of decisions.  That the world holds together because of the totality of human decisions.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed.,  The Philosophical and Literary Fragments of Gregory Sallust.