dennis scharnberg

Want a different world?  Just make different statements.

Cooper W. Barthelme,  A Systems Approach to Advice.

Satire:  A business that is standing on its last legs.  Doomed.

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

Name anything, today, that escapes being captured as an image.  That escapes being distributed as an image.  Go ahead.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Creativity:  A gravely misleading cultural notion.  The idea that there exists a zone of activity, of being, that is so far removed from ordinary activity (and being) that it emits its own light.

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

The sun is up.  My eyes are open.  Let the madness begin.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

Picasso was a runt.  And not just in physical stature.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

The pessimist will say that we are just going in circles.  But no, he is wrong.  It is ellipses.  We go in ellipses.

Travis Hilliard,  The Private Language.

I’ll spell out the word “redemption,” followed by a colon.  Then, I will write a definition of the word—one suggesting that we are able to redeem ourselves.  That should take care of it.

Titus Musgrave, The Mystery of Sleep.

It is all humiliating.  Everything is.  Those who feel that they have escaped humiliation are just obtuse.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

“Is that supposed to be music?”  Brian asked.  And he immediately regretted it.

Priscilla Onkers, All About Edward.