dennis scharnberg

ever widening fracture

“And I’ll tell you again, Millie, that post facto advice is taunting. And nothing but!”

Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

continuing to sleep

“But I don’t want you to agree, Donna. Oppose me, damn it. Lash out with heavy blows!”

Pryce Cummings, Rattle Box.

leap tall buildings

Internet: Shiva the Destroyer.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

ding dong merrily

Thomas worked all morning, going step by step, to create a meticulously logical argument. With almost no assumptions.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

government protects us

“Tell me, Janet, how is it possible to hate a lawyer?”

Desmond Ogg, Waving Fields of Alfalfa.

smoke without fire

The trill is gone.

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

everyone is talking

It was the modern city that made marxism possible.

Godfrey Daniel, Inspecting the Time Domain.

deum de deo

Facts are not without importance.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

so-called chance operations

…a version wherein Macbeth merely harms Banquo. By luring him into some fraudulent real-estate venture.

Winston Joyce, Rational Agent Theory.

spelling and philosophy

We yearn for corridors.

Roger Sensabaugh, A Short History of Boredom.