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March 6, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
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March 4, 2025
A garland of quotations CX
A smalle fyre, yan a loud flame, proves more true.
•Thomas Chatterton, “Ælla” (ca. 1770).
Burn down everything which is getting in the way of your perception of truth.
•Robert Svoboda, Aghora: The Left Hand of God (1986).
Though for a hundred years the Guebre feeds his flame,
Did he once fall therein, ’twould feed on him the same.
•Sâdi, The Rose Garden (1258).
Nero, on Tarpeian Rock,
watched as Rome went up in flames;
crying ancients, screaming infants,
and not one thing cause...
March 2, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: In the village of Cottinend, NY, someone has been tweeting threats about a terrible massacre coming in three months. Bernie Feldstein is in on the massacre, and is excited because he wants revenge on his longtime nemesis, Alan Jancewicz. Patrolman John Oberman, concerned about the tweets, has decided to call the Sp!der…)
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February 27, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
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Ogden Whitney!
February 25, 2025
A garland of quotations CIX
There is no more unfortunate being under the sun than a fetishist, who longs for a woman’s shoe and has to make do with a whole woman.
•Karl Kraus, Nachts (1918).
My love for Katya verged on the abnormal. On one occasion I secretly stole one of her handkerchiefs, and on another a piece of ribbon that she used for tying up her hair, and I used to kiss them all night long, wiping my tears with them.
•Dostoevsky, Netochka Nezvanova (1845).
[Leigh Hunt’s] poor wife has led the...
February 23, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here. For pete’s sake, don’t start here; this is Book 2! Start at Book 1!
(The story so far: Colin Lang, respectable actuary at Radcliffe Worth Partners, has contrived the perfect plan to perpetrate some kind of horrible massacre in four months. He has recruited Bernie Feldstein, local idiot, to help him. The police have no clue, except that someone has started tweeting threats; only Patrolman John Oberman takes them seriously.)
Book II...
February 20, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
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Sparky!
February 18, 2025
A garland of quotations CVIII
“Surely you have no bourgeois prejudices?” she said.
“Of course not,” he answered her hurriedly, for he would much sooner have been thought knavish than bourgeois.
•W. Somerset Maugham, Ashenden (1928).
Stendhal said traders and merchants made him want to “weep and vomit at the same time.” Flaubert thought they were “plodding and avaricious.” Hatred of the bourgeoisie, he wrote, “is the beginning of all virtue.” He signed his letters “Bourgeoisophobus” to show how much he...
February 16, 2025
Blvd. of Blood
Continued from here. Table of contents for ease of navigation here.
(The story so far: Colin Lang, respectable actuary at Radcliffe Worth Partners, is supposed to be planning some sort of murder spree come spring; Carol Wernick is a coworker he meets at an office party. Meanwhile local cop John Oberman and local patsy Bernie Feldstein have yet to figure out what is really going on; nor has Carol; but has the reader?)
18.Bernie’s bandage fell off one morning on the drive to work. Yes, the Fines ha...
February 13, 2025
Truly Wordless Comic Panels
MY BOOKS HAVE VERY LITTLE KISSING!
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