dennis scharnberg

lobsters and clams

If it is false, then it cannot be true.  Unless it is yet another instance of that false truth that we find so perplexing and aggravating.

Benedict Symes,  A Meditation on Periodicity.

nobody is important

[Crowley] claims to have witnessed the telekinetic repair of a shattered teacup.  All this in a darkened room in an old home on the outskirts of Stuttgart.

Cyrus Donato,  Nodes and Internodes.

if need be

Bohemian:  One who thinks of himself as being a “bohemian.”  (See also Hipster.)

Clive Morrow,  A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

twilight’s last gleaming

deacons trucked

sins sear

loot tenant

gin your wine

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

stitch by stitch

Words—all written words—are mere detritus.

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

plumbing the depths

The idea of enlightenment—the notion that one is enlightened—is intoxicating.  There is no known remedy.

Rollin Mungo, Selected Rants of Mr. Barraclough.

beneath the sands

Just look at us.  Do people this frivolous deserve their own nation?

Oswald Delling,  Where Are the Vikings?

ingress and egress

There were loud snaps and cracks emanating from the big oak table.  And in the evening,  furniture would move of its own accord.

Teresa Ravens,  The Lives of Helena Blavatsky.

in solidarity with

Hedonism leads to boredom, and that sort of boredom leads to monstrosity.

Hecuba Gathers,  A Purely Physical World.

cleanliness is next

Is it the case that any definition will necessarily lead to an “infinite” regress?

Tanner Faust, A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.