dennis scharnberg

drawing the line

Cleanliness is elusive.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

the awakened state

Destroy the world.  Destroy the culture.  Destroy the self.  Destroy something.

Arlie Kahoots,  Confessions of a Very Merry Prankster.

all at once

To diagram the world—now that’s the thing.  It can bring immense power.  But we seem to have completely forgotten the risk.

Gregory James Honus,  Protocols of the Flounder.

nowhere to go

Gwendolyn barged into my study waving a sheet of paper.  She claimed it had been slipped under her door.  It was a page from a small tablet, and on it was a brief handwritten query:  “Do you know what you have been participating in?”

Glynnis Hoving,  The Multiplication Murders.

call into question

If the permeable medium contains a sufficient number of random heterogeneities, then it will behave as though it were homogeneous.

Dalmo Peterkin,  A Meditation on Non-Narrative Writing.

more loose language

“Erase your personal history.”  This was Aleister Crowley’s solemn advice to Harrison Chalmers.  To which Chalmers replied:  “How?”

Bronson K. Janda,  Turning Gold Into Lead.

hideous window treatment

First, we make people perfect (bring them to perfection).  Then, we have utopia.

Ellis Nobodaddy,  The Theory of Ice.

obtain friendliness training

There is nothing quite like being thanked by a voice on the television.

Blake Metterdine,  Where Lovely Mermaids Flow.

clear tire impressions

It is amazing to consider the extent to which our world holds together because of men pretending to be self-confident.

Daniel Ouchi,  A Phenomenology of Moral Theater.

prior uncertainty distribution

Today, Marxism exists largely as a free-floating form of resentment that can be applied now to this matter and now to that.

Palmer Coates,  The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.