dennis scharnberg

murder of gonzago

Goedel’s theorem concerns reality, not mathematics. And it tries to show that only reality is coherent. Unfortunately, it uses a model to show this.

Evan Amberol, A Theology of History.

how deeply committed

We always lack crucial information.

Desmond Urquhart, The Unsocial Sciences.

cry a river

Nothing happens.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

rapt in rain

ice sage

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

she’s solid gone

But around that time he was playing tenor sax with a jazz group called the Lyle Talbot Five. On tour they were sometimes booked as The Late Risers.

Heywood Wakefield, The Humdrum Demon.

took my shoes

Sophistication: A form of nihilism that permits appreciation of fine furniture.

Clive Morrow, A Crustacean’s Dictionary.

in a box

Hosanna: must be sung; cannot be defined.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

hill and dale

The citizen longs for rubbish.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

pong! ping! pow!

Our situation is dire.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

making no headway

He went on and on about what he confidently referred to as the “rule of things”. Or, sometimes, it was the “tyranny of things”.

Brendan Sander, Speaking in Wonders.