Gottschall's notion that fiction presents the reader (the critic being a more skilled reader) with the opportunity to scrutinize characters as if they were real people whose "craniums" can be opened to discover "what makes them tick" is no doubt widely shared. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The reader must give up an accustomed passivity for a more active alterness in the face of the novel's constant (and constantly inventive) metamorphoses, but is this really more onerous than relying on the critic-drudge who will "pry open the craniums of characters, authors and narrators" and reveal to us the secrets of human motivation? ❋ Unknown (2010)
P5, howcome the crowing craniums and sputtering spigots call socialism spreading the wealth when its really spreading of debt … isnt that what privatization does, spread debt to the many while enriching the public pouches parasites? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Republicans should have their heads inspected, I am convinced you will find the numbers 666 stamped on their craniums. cool rock ❋ Unknown (2009)
Hard to believe but it fits Fussy Slippers theory that all listeners that call in to crowing craniums radio shows are morons. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I say this because I suspect that proctology may become a growth industry here before too long, what with all those stuck craniums out there. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The primary job of the literary critic is to pry open the craniums of characters, authors and narrators, climb inside their heads and spelunk through the bewildering complexity within to figure out what makes them tick. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Drool splattered keyboards, sweat forming on their foreheads as they rack their microcephalic craniums for anything remotely witty … a BIG … FAT … ZERO! ❋ Unknown (2010)
We couldn't crack open craniums and "spelunk through the bewildering complexity" even if we wanted to (and the novel gives us no reason to want to) since the "bewildering complexity" is all external, in the mode of storytelling itself. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He has met aliens in person, and drawn sketches of their vast eyes and swollen craniums. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I do expect, though, son, that examination of their craniums would find their skulls just a wee bit smaller, as excavation of their chest cavities must surely reveal their hearts to be a fraction less developed. ❋ BILL FLANAGAN (2010)
Our emotions tell us to save the babies, all of them -- even fetuses and newborns with empty craniums and kittens and puppies and baby elephants and other big-eyed beneficiaries of our parental instincts. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What it weren't breasts ... what if it were craniums. ❋ Drewan (2008)
I doubt we will see any baseball bats hitting craniums in this picture as it is based on a popular piece of kids literature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They know how it all ends, and thus they have the ultimate spoiler swimming around in their craniums (I bet LostFan108 would love to get his greasy mitts on that one). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Needless to say, the latest addition to the psychotic herd is having quite a few discouraging problems with his recently acquired craniums, issues which leave a large string of horribly disfigured bodies twitching in his wake. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Republicans respect big brass ones, and until Dems know how to grow them and then swing them at their opponent's craniums, they will get walked on. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Confirming our suspicions about the raw material of the celebrity media's craniums. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Dude, did you hear about Jack? I heard he [copped] mad cranium on friday."
"Word, I might [cop] [crane] tomorrow..." ❋ Arman 2.0 (2005)
"[Oi] Cranium, [give me] [my ball] back!" ❋ John Maclaine (2008)
Good thing [triple sec] wipes [slides] off the [Cranium] board so easily! ❋ JakeStar (2006)
"Oi [cranium], give me that ball back"
"[Cranium], your head is huge, [move out] the way so i can [see the sun]!" ❋ John Maclaine (2008)
You're [such a Richard] Cranium = You're [such a] [Dickhead]. ❋ Graysn (2005)
That [cranium] be [rockin] through [the suburbs]. ❋ Tom (2003)
(Guy gets wine [spilled on] him from Richard Cranium) "Dude, you're such a fuckin Richard Cranium!"
[dick head] dickhead richard ass hole prick [sherlock] dumb ❋ Jay-T27 (2012)
[That guy] was [a Richard] [Cranium]. ❋ Gomer (2004)
[You are a] [penis cranium]. ❋ Hippie Crack (2007)
Fred: [my IQ] is 69 I'm a [big brain]
Bob: my IQ is [420] I'm a large cranium ❋ Large Cranium Neanderthal (2020)