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applaud now please

“No numbers add up. And no serious questions get answered. It’s postmodernism, baby!”

Clinton Hobbes, Stalking for Beginners.

hip hop hope

“Alexa, find classical paradoxes!”

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

member of club

What does symmetry suggest?

Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.

shopping for handbags

“The Sirens did not beckon the sailors, Laura. It was far worse than that!”

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

what to like

Consciousness permits matter.

Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

doom despair misery

Martin Baldwin insisted on holding the book upside down as he was reading it. “It’s more challenging that way,” he sometimes whispered.

Rhonda Carstairs, A Bad Case of the Whim-Whams and Other Stories.

chest of drawers

“That’s a girl’s writing, Linda. No guy who ever put pen to paper would write the word vivid.”

Marston Moore, Sweet Meteor of Death.

do not bend

November 5, 2018. Here is another word I shall never use again: “amazing.”

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

under the radar

“No, Millicent, he had to be sworn in. That had to happen first. It’s a sine qua non. Only then can something else happen.”

Michael Wayne Hammer, Mystery of the Murmuring Maiden.

glitter of world

The wring of truth.

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.