dennis scharnberg

bucket of bones

Most futures are ordinary.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

hickory dickory dock

It was a shade of lavender that I shall never forget.  And great bunches of hair.  Thick blonde hair.  And then, of course, there was the blood.  The streaming blood.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

up for grabs

Languages are funny.  All of them.  If you don’t believe me, just listen to one.

Dennis W. Sylvester,  Confessions of a Moon Man.

seductio ad absurdum

Why is logic so important?

A.  It is soporific.

B.  It mocks us.

C.  It is rarely prurient.

D.  It provides distraction.

the flying trapeze

Everybody can be above average.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

pay close attention

Facebook:  A facility for voluntary inmates.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

five and dime

242.  We do not know—we cannot know—the whole story.  We spend so much of our time and energy trying to evade the devastating implications of this.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

a deferential equation

Trish had much better things to do with her time than think.

Victoria Salt,  A Compendium of Opening Lines.

horse eats hat

113.  On an IQ test, the world is handed to you.

Trevor Martens,  A Great Many Gratuitous Remarks.

giant among men

“Can you blink?  We need to know whether you can blink.  OK?  This will give us some idea about your credibility as a witness.”

Timothy Swofford,  The Corpse and the Candle.