Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader
William Melvin Gardner
Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader
William Melvin Gardner
AAphorisms for the Uncommon Reader was released by Logica Books and is available at Amazon, B&N, Book Depository, and local bookstores. It provides a review of this briefest and broadest form of the literary arts, followed by 400 original, thought-provoking, and humorous insights, for example:
The toucan sees nothing unusual in the mirror. We make lifelong friends while we are young and indiscriminate. Capitalism: n. An ingenious system for creating work for workers, wealth for the wealthy, and poverty for the poor. You can learn what you have to say only by listening when you speak. Perceptions: n. pl. Images from our past distorted to accommodate the objects currently before us. Happiness isn’t something that happens to us. It’s something we do. We usually understand what we heard, even when we don’t understand what was said. Adulthood: n. The developmental stage in which we abandon our selves to become our lives. Militia: n. An armed mob organized by shirt color-historically black or brown.
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