dennis scharnberg

rich and strange

Cast all your doubts into the ocean, boy!

Nicholas James Barnarby, ed.,  Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.

more of same

Does the masochist have a right to be punished?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

complete and total

Today, politics is a form of bathing:  the repetitive splash.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

just floating away

It is not just that Marx reduces the universe to a smudgy economic conflict.  No.  It is the enthusiasm with which he does this.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

up for grabs

27.  Photographers should always be prepared to apologize for their images.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

to raise awareness

Marxism:  a conceptual means of perpetuating adolescence, or of reverting to adolescence.

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

the cosmic heights

1.  give piece a chance

2.  judge meant all

3.  knight and dei

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

isle of dogs

Worseness.  That’s what Winston called it.  The state of being that he aimed for.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

grilled cheese sandwich

Is history—is what happened—merely a game of connect-the-dots?  How does one “write” history?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

loud and long

Injustice:  Hating this does not—does not—lead to the love of justice.

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