dennis scharnberg

1.  give piece a chance

2.  judge meant all

3.  knight and dei

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Worseness.  That’s what Winston called it.  The state of being that he aimed for.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

Is history—is what happened—merely a game of connect-the-dots?  How does one “write” history?

Tanner Faust,  A Scrapbook of Impertinent Interrogatives.

Injustice:  Hating this does not—does not—lead to the love of justice.

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

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.