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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Tired of the same old values? Try inverting them.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

For years he dwelled in the village of Pangbourne, near the market town of Franklin, in the valley of the river Sutton. There he raised his daughter Una and his son Ogden. There also he pursued a fitful career as a crank and as the author of “legends”, known today as The Beefsteak Tales.

Ernest Pinkerton, Boondoggling.

Time is everywhere.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Perhaps Kant had a theory about what the sea looks like.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“We are afraid, sir, that we can provide you with only an estimate of how very sorry we are.”

J. Haviland Hunter III, The History of Miss Judy and James.

Mr. Gulden’s room was untidy, his clothing was untidy, his thinking was untidy.

Anson Trimm, Carlos the Forgetful.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Cowlishaw’s solution to speech was to engage in a sequence of incoherent honking noises. Sometimes loud, sometimes soft. “To hell with words,” he would quip, later.

Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.

In being wrong, no one sounds as clever as Nietzsche.

Harold Nazworthy, Weidemeyer’s Admiral.