Measuring the measurement. We are accomplishing nothing until we can approach the matter continuously in that way.
Benedict Symes, A Meditation on Periodicity.
“Basically, we want to ruin you and completely degrade anything that you value,” whispered Amanda in regard to her Frankfurt School political alignment. “We are nasty people, John.”
Clifford Apogee, Draining the Pools—A Collection of Stories.
Can the sensors measure themselves?
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“It’s the 21st century, Stacie. It is the greatest frivolity ever witnessed upon this Earth. It’s the Big Show!”
Brooks Westerby, Squaresville.
When we refer to our humility we lose it.
Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.
“What a wonderful person!” Those are the words that come to Mark whenever he hears the name Sigmund Freud.
Diana Moone, Living Well.
Kyle seeks that simple proposition—that all-purpose rationale—that would justify whatever he happens to want to do, at any time of day or night. A new guiding philosophy that satisfies.
Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.
The playwright is like Iago, but he whispers into our ear.
Winslow Steele, The Anatomy of Stasis.
Looting: improvised economic justice.
Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.
We were wrong to attribute a Romantic “depth” to nihilism. Consider instead the prospect of a shallow nihilism.
Winslow Steele, The Anatomy of Stasis.
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