dennis scharnberg

When the cataclysm hasn’t happened, those who predicted it seem foolish.

Hunter Hogarth, Raised by Wolves.

More odds and ends:

1. this wind roars
2. fluids flowing backwards
3. laughter of the dead
4. bark with slow leakage
5. there’s nothing in it
6. fish of all faces
7. the opening of boxes
8. saline oblivion
9. troubled sleep
10. push button to lock

Tessa Fielding and Constance Gogarty, eds., A Book of Lists.

…so here is what they leave us with: Either follow or oppose.

Raymond Sapulpa, Circus Giganticus.

Anyone can destroy.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

And again Mr. Nichols was startled to find that people will think themselves to be subtle.

Trevor Walpole, The Imperfect Stranger. (1784)

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

Myrtle Mawby, Cabinets and Drawers, a Novel.

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

Pryce Cummings, Rattle Box.

Internet: Shiva the Destroyer.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

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

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

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

Desmond Ogg, Waving Fields of Alfalfa.