dennis scharnberg

Everybody can be above average.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

Facebook:  A facility for voluntary inmates.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

242.  We do not know—we cannot know—the whole story.  We spend so much of our time and energy trying to evade the devastating implications of this.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

Trish had much better things to do with her time than think.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

113.  On an IQ test, the world is handed to you.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

“Can you blink?  We need to know whether you can blink.  OK?  This will give us some idea about your credibility as a witness.”

Timothy Swofford,  The Corpse and the Candle.

What haunts the present day Progressive?  The possibility that racism is vanishing.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Janet distinguishes herself in so many ways.  For instance,  she knows the answers to literally thousands of questions.

Alberta Traywick, Susannah’s Accident.

“What poor beast had to be slaughtered so that you could wriggle into those?”  Daphne was wearing her tight polished-leather pants again, and Jonathan did not like it.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

Sex:  our way to be obsessive about the merely hormonal.

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