dennis scharnberg

“Alexa, find classical paradoxes!”

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

What does symmetry suggest?

Olmstead Trent III, The History of Objects.

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

Giles Coxe-Coburn, Belief in Insects.

Consciousness permits matter.

Chalmers Van Nest, The Trivial Quadrivium.

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.

“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.

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

Reginald Boyington, Dear Dreadful Diary.

“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.

The wring of truth.

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

When fact declines from its status of primary significance, it descends directly to no significance.

Trevor Albertus, Malevolent Asymmetry.