The parlor was inhabited by a monstrous hog’s head (afflicted with droop-jaw & lazy-eye), killed by the twins on their sixteenth birthday, & a somnambulant Grandfather clock (at odds with my own pocke...
The pieces fell into place. I fell into pieces.
The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.
The present is a battleground . . . where rival what-ifs compete to become the future 'what-is.' How does one what-if prevail over its adversaries? The answer . . . 'Military and political power, of c...
The purpose of modern warfare is to slay as many civilians as possible.
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
The rectum of Wybo Gerritszoon releases a hot fart of horror.
The reductio ad absurdum of M.D.'s view, I argued, was that science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilization drive...
The river’s vowels and the trees’ consonants speak a not-quite-foreign language.
The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great Malvern...When the four-minute warning goes off, the Min...
Time needs time to be measurable.
Yet for the first time in three days, I want something. I want the forest lord to turn me into a cedar. The very oldest islanders say that if you are in the interior mountains on the night when the fo...
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.
The soul is a verb. He impales a lit candle on a spike. Not a noun.
The sun was deaf'nin' so high up, yay, it roared an' time streamed from it.
The truth is, deep ends cause drowning. Baptisms by fire cause third-degree burns.
What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to po...
What a uniquely capitalist response to that gender inequality: women have been forced by convention for generations – millennia – to spend money on expensive clothes and agonising shoes, to daub thems...
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.
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