dennis scharnberg

“She thinks she is in a movie, David. And she is not alone in that regard.”

Diana Moone, Living Well.

term in nation

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Ease is toxic.

Amanda Willcoxen, ed., The Literary and Philosophical Fragments of Gregory James Sallust.

There is no factual Nietzsche. There are only interpretations of Nietzsche.

Baldwin Tavinger, Toward a Rhetoric of Number.

Criteria are post facto.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

“It was gossamer, Dan. Pure gaseous frivolity. Diffusion of nothing at all.”

Augustus Bligh, Crawlspace.

He dabbled a bit too casually in matters of business. For a while, it was what he referred to as “old coins.” And then there was the wholesaling of damaged fruit. Regardless of what he tried he always managed to lose his shirt. And he always had to start again from zero. At least that’s how it appeared to those who knew him best.

Harold Nickleby, Captain Hugo and the Case of the Mystic Rhymes.

“He reminds me,” replied Brenda, “of the comedy writer I once knew. So clever. So wonderful.”

Chadwick Graves, One Damned Thing After Another.

Bored of Directors

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

First, they define “knowing” in such a way as to make knowing unattainable. Then, they declare that we cannot know.

Nigel Swoone, Old Theories of Time.