dennis scharnberg

A tough ho to row.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

What On the Road delineates is the nascence of a new kind (or degree) of self-absorption.  Kerouac did not intend this as a pretty picture.

Jackson Currothers III,  The View From the Cauldron.

Remembering is for losers.

Terence Theodore,  Proverbs for a New Era.

Erected to orifice.

Andrew Tertullian,  Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“I have begun to read Proust again.”

“Oh?  Well let me ask you, then, do you ever watch yourself while you’re reading Proust?”

Philip Cavendish,  Tilly’s Treasury of Colloquial Bits.

“Why not say anything you want about the world?  Surely, it will be true.  Won’t it?  The crucial thing is that you want to say it.”  Gregory just might be guilty of being too hard on his fellow citizens.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

Virtue 1:   You don’t have to listen to rock music.  The music does the listening for you.

Hume Tanner,  “The 36 Virtues of Rock-and-Roll,”  Essays Concerning Human Understanding.

Gravity:  a social construct.

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

“Enlightenment?  Yes.  That’s what I will have.”  William spoke as though he were ordering from a menu.

Thaddeus Crewes, Crowded Evil World.