dennis scharnberg

Is a memory just our attempt to elevate the insipid?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

The trouble with “superficiality” as a characterization is that we cannot quite know whether we have managed to penetrate beyond the surface.  We can never know.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Christopher reads newspapers.  No, it’s more like he devours them.  But only the headlines, you see.  Page after page of the crisp boldface type.  He is sure—like you and I are certain that the sun will rise in the morning—he is just sure that the NYT headlines contain hidden messages.  Hidden just for him.

Agatha Vox, When Everything Was Singing.

Prospects for a new motto:

1.  Our conformity is better than yours.

2.  May my resentment be everlasting!

3.  The squire route is a circular argument.

4.  We will tell them nothing.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

  “Interesting” is today’s loftiest aesthetic category.

Hamilton Howlish,  A New Coat of Paint.

Literature:  Today, writing novels and short stories is a form of proof that one is able to be “literary.”

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

Want a different world?  Just make different statements.

Cooper W. Barthelme,  A Systems Approach to Advice.

Satire:  A business that is standing on its last legs.  Doomed.

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

Name anything, today, that escapes being captured as an image.  That escapes being distributed as an image.  Go ahead.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Creativity:  A gravely misleading cultural notion.  The idea that there exists a zone of activity, of being, that is so far removed from ordinary activity (and being) that it emits its own light.

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