Page 13 - Observations
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Theology is a multiple choice question: you have to get to the bottom
of it to find “none of the above.”
If I were king, everyone would have a positive, upbeat nickname.
On paper’s playground, eraser parents encourage fallen pencil
children to get off the ground and start over.
The ripest fruit falls on the greenest head.
Go jump in a lake: you won’t be rescued trying to drown in a saucer.
We go in and out of consciousness twisted like radio knobs for
tuning and volume.
The fire at the power station kills power at the fire station.
By its own exclusion from the category, nonsense objectively deals
with the serious.
Admiration’s enviable, but envy’s not admirable.
There’s no small case of the jitters, but we do have the giant
economy size.
In the city, every breath taken is artificial respiration.
Rock and roll, if not the easiest thing in the world to parody, must be
the hardest to avoid doing it to there.
Old Christians never die; they just get lionized.
Electronic noses will prove the most embarrassing spy-devices.
Man’s loud syncopations played against the rhythms of nature
threaten to break up the band.
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