dennis scharnberg

Progressivism:  a juggling act that cannot ever end.

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

“If you hesitate to admire us, you might hurt our feelings.  Consider, for a moment, the immensity of that.”  This is the new message—new to the twenty-first century—from almost any  minority.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Cage:  contemporary examples include Twitter and Facebook.

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

Internet:  We no longer have an actual world, but only fleeting versions of a world.

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

At the door, Julia exhibited what appeared to be a smile.  At first.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

“Doubt everything.”  And doubt that, too?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

Message to Youth:  Nothing that you want in life will ever happen.

Question to Youth:  Who is suggesting that you should want this or want that?  Where does the wanting come from?

Jacob Faubion,  The Hats of Rudyard Kipling.

The image is defunct.  What modernism itself hasn’t killed the digital photograph has.  The internet is an image graveyard.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Self-Expression:   I cannot think of anything worse.

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

There are no facts but only interpretations, wrote Nietzsche.  But he was wrong.  There are no interpretations either.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.