In those days it was still quite possible for a person to simply wander off, and never be heard from again.
P. J. Cahoon, The History of Crime.
When you finally see that—for a theologian—the religion is not the priority….
Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.
Edwin’s New Year’s Resolution was simple, perhaps even somewhat blunt: “to be less accommodating.”
Nicholas Bruhns, Otto the Magpie.
A stream of words—that’s what “the past” is.
Roger Sensabaugh, A Short History of Boredom.
“Don’t be silly, Carla. Any philosopher will tell you just how difficult it is to know something.”
Karl Buckling, Time Domain Blues.
Postmodernism: a vicious frolic.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
end sense
Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.
“Well, Franklin, I do think that I made a small mistake.”
“How small?”
“Very small. Miniscule, I’d say. Trifling. Piddling, actually. A mere particle of a mistake.”
Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.
We engage with matter foolishly.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
The critic is stating the obvious, but does this as though he is actually noticing something. That is the grift. Like when Kenneth Clark exhorts us to “accept” the notion that the Arena Chapel frescoes are immensely important.
Nelson Poindexter, Corpuscular Aesthetics.
