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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.

ether/or

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Garland? Gar? Where are you? What are you up to?”

“I am trying to devise an entirely new language, if you must know. Now, will you please just leave me alone!”

Augustus Bligh, Crawlspace.

“Doubt the truth, Janice. I know it sounds all wrong. But give it a try.”

Nicholas Crisp, Unfit for Murder.

Nothing has changed.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

Internet: cultural entropy.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

Some events are significant, and others are not.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

At one point, he was heard to claim that [Joyce’s] Ulysses was one long elaborate palindrome. When a colleague pointed out that a simple glimpse at the initial and final line would dispel this notion, he shouted that the novel should have been a palindrome.

Leighton Johns, My Uncle Toby.