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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled ... some imprecision clarified, some name Named ... and some change managed.
when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.
When you con for revenge, you might not know when you've won.
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
So dark the con of man.
You do a lot of concatenating when you're an Oulipian
A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public
This conspiracy needs a flow chart,
Phantom Conspiracy,
Vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt,
Holy conspiracies, Batman!
Whilst some people inspire, others conspire!
We all laced together - a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing them like confetti.
I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived
my breakfast supplied only two ideas
that the rolls were good and the butter bad.
prestidigitator,
Immaculate Deception.
For conspiracy,
I know not how it tastes, though it be dished
For me to try how.
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
I have a clever and devious plan.
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth.
The creative is always an act of recombination, with something added by new juxtaposition-as making a spark requires two things struck together.
You can either be a con or a man - you can't be both.
Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.
I made a creativity out of that messiness.
Custard: A detestable substance produced by a malevolent conspiracy of the hen, the cow, and the cook.
The plainest case in many words entangling.
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
Confit is not something that comes to mind for summer. Usually it means duck confit, made by cooking the legs and thighs in duck fat to preserve them for winter.
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
Then Mrs. confiscated my shiny glitter jar. Confiscate is the school word for yanked it right out of my hand.
cheese cauldron.
From now on, consider yourself a con artist.
To fix and make plausible, the nebulous emotions of my costumed heroins, like diamonds on a sea of dough.
The transformation which occurs in the cauldron is quintessential and wondrous, subtle and delicate. The mouth cannot express it in words.
Sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;
Now, con said grimly, "I go to kill a werewolf and claim my woman."
~Con
Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.
The mason stirs.
Words!
Pens are too light.
Take a chisel to write.
Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.
I have composed too much.
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All things are plotting to make us whole / All things conspire to make us one.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
The most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.
...But even then you have to reckon with a criminal's chief vice.'
'What is that?'
' Conceit. A criminal never believes that his crime can fail.
A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.
In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,
deceit sugar-coated.
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
Fillet of a Fenny Snake,
In the Cauldron boyle and bake:
Eye of Newt, and Toe of Frogge,
Wooll of Bat, and Tongue of Dogge:
Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting,
Lizards legge, and Howlets wing:
For a Charme of powrefull trouble,
Like a Hell-broth, boyle and bubble
Coition is a slight attack of apoplexy. For man gushes forth from man, and is separated by being torn apart with a kind of blow.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach.
Two people make a crime, three make a conspiracy.
Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
When two people tell the same lie, the are working together
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the
world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
All who love are conspirators.
Excitement - a variety of creative coma - overcame me.
Don't lie,Tell one lie,then you gotta tell another lie to compound on the first.
Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.
Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love, Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You ... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up ...
Holy shit, were we complicating things. We were out of control.
"Building?" Asked Eric, voice heavy with disbelief.
"Yes." Teeth gritted, I smiled.
"Banging, screwing," said Joe. "you know.
Confound it, it's foolish, Tom
I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,
that I became Love and Love became me.
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
There's nothing wrong with the word conspiracy. It just means 'to breathe together'.
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.
Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.
mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy
Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
Playing with appearances and mastering the arts of deception are among the aesthetic pleasures of life. They are also key components in the acquisition of power.
Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.
It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.
You see, I'm a juggler with words myself.
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
Creativity is the fun of putting together unexpected ideas
Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.
Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, 'Romeo and Juliet,' the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Tangle me up like Grandma's yarn,
Discombobulated.
Whack 'em, stack 'em and pack 'em.
Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed,
I'm always creative.
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.
Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.
IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
She said, "I love you, Con," because whatever Jakob believed about those three words, they still mattered to Harper. They were as close to an incantation as any she knew, had power other words lacked. "I'll
Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.
How many quarrels, and how important, has the doubt as to the meaning of this syllable "Hoc" produced for the world!
Sentences take shape from the words that are stacked on top of one another in the dusty chambers of my mind, waiting to be used--words that now peel off my lips, trembling as they come to life.
Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.