dennis scharnberg

all shook up

How do we find out what happened?  Say, yesterday?  Or this day in 966 A.D. in the city of Rome?  All given methods are inadequate to the task.  And even if there were some degree of adequacy in method, we could never impede the onslaught of interpretation:  “What did it all mean?  What, oh what, did it mean?”

Gaylord Perry III,  The Walls of Magnus Martyr.

right fine gunner

Politician:   the one who fulfills our desire to be fooled.

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

a bit peckish

We are humans.  Failing is what we do.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

cogs with names

Empiricism can be regarded as a form of magic.  Or it could be if we were able to regard it empirically.

Gardner Stuyvesant, The Trauma of Materialism.

we found something

“I want to be looked at.  I do want to be desirable.”

Nan Chresto,  Strengthen Your Core in Nine Easy Steps.

running in circles

I learned this a long time ago:  that anything can do harm.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

singing in hockets

A tough ho to row.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

nymphs are departed

waste of time

What On the Road delineates is the nascence of a new kind (or degree) of self-absorption.  Kerouac did not intend this as a pretty picture.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

strengthen the core

Remembering is for losers.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.