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“The answer, Mary, is the word yes. It’s the awful word yes.”

Roberta Pym, The Complete Undoing of William Ambrose.

“For what it’s worth, Palmer, the number of recognizable three-word phrases in English is immense. And I have no idea what it all means, in case you are wondering.”

Roberta Pym, The Complete Undoing of William Ambrose.

Model: one who smiles (or frowns) as though she really means it.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.

Modernism was a series of tactics—or clever ideas (some more clever than others)—with the intention being to generate absurdities.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

What does the internet distract us from?

Roger Hedgecook, Stolen and Sold for Parts.

It is easier to make a person worse than to make him better. That is the key to historical decline. And it guarantees that decline.

Charles Brookland, Walking the Plank.

Therefore shall I discover thee, and

Waketh thee from dreame.

Addison Prosper, Roderigo’s Revenge. (1621)

Job: an activity that can be audited by a manager.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

Unless I am mistook upon’t,

That were Twelfth Night proper.

And that day were rough all round— all

gray and gruesome.

And a cold time we had of it, sir.

Addison Prosper, Roderigo’s Revenge. (1621)

“Where is the Truth found? Lying at the bottom of a well.”

Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.