dennis scharnberg

slowness of being

According to science, distortion of physical reality is OK  (as long as the distortion simplifies).

Derek Anscombe,  Daylight or Cool White.

the flying trapeze

491.  You cannot know how stupid a person is until you ask him and he tells you.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

ask not what

That “insipid boring bourgeois way” is just what makes the steady world possible.  And without the steady world, how does the grubby odoriferous unemployable Karl Marx ever manage to write his books?

Patricia Dowling,  The Past Considered as a Small Bowl.

sins of emission

780.  Set a goal.  At least try to achieve stagnation.

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

clay and wattles

The hot girl’s dream.  A picture.  Show a little bush, and the whole world melts.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

pull yourself together

Overheard:  “Isn’t it cool that this band is from the west coast?  And that we were told?”

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

the friendly skies

972.   Everything we think, everything we do, boils down to just one thing:  our trigonometry lesson.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

a babbling brook

Let’s have a chuckle, shall we, about the humdrum normality—the ordinariness—of casual, impersonal sex.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

nothing at all

195.  The truth about doors:  (1) Once inside, and with the door closed behind you, the world outside evaporates.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

the short list

Are you an artist?”  Well, I can say this much:  to think of it in that way ruins everything.

Philip Talkington,  Memoirs of a Ditch Digger.