dennis scharnberg

the ethical jellyfish

The Marxists never—never—change their stripes.  They just find a different way to lie.

Morton Kinsella,  Avatars of the Golden Hare.

pocketful of rye

“Henceforth, I shall forgo use of the following words:  portal, cursor, widget, menu, gravitar, google, attachment, dropdown, hashtag, autofill,….”  In diary entries, Lawrence sometimes implies that the Internet is an annoying imposition.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

expensively educated offspring

  We have essentially provided everyone with a pocket-sized digital camera.  Photographs in the tens of billions.  The cold, hideous death of the image.  Unbearable.

Thomas Dendritikos,  Making Decisions.

hormonally driven spasms

 

“The Marxist utopian perfection on this Earth?” asked Evans.  “If it ever were produced, it would be simply awful.  Inescapable awfulness.”

Burdyce Goode, Wonderful With Dogs.

and so forth

18.  Thermodynamics will never let you down.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

smooth and creamy

“I did it!  I did it!”  whispered Janet, dramatically.  “Well, was it as sticky and nasty as they say?”  wondered Allen, almost aloud.

Tristan Holyoke, A Tree Full of Monkeys.

a refreshing change

Providing an alibi for him also provides an alibi for oneself.  One of the Laws of Homicide.

Allison Cowling, The Night of the Detective.

thixotropic stoichiometric cricondentherm

What distinguishes human behavior from that of animals:  not knowing what to do.

Garland W. Kiester,  Tune, Turn, Drop.

the traveling salesman

When the mass media appeared—first movies, then radio, TV, internet—the capability to supply distractions also appeared.  As that capability grew, so did the appetite of the citizen.   Appetite evolved into need.  And the internet can be seen as an almost infinite array of fleeting amusements to satisfy that need.  The result is that, today, a person’s life is largely a sequence of these distractions.

Clifford Albertus,  Long-Term Storage.

sign of four

Year:   All of a sudden, it is wretched spring again.

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