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This is a newsletter by Ingrid Burrington. Every Sunday, you get a collection of the best sentences I've come across all week. That's pretty much the whole idea. Pay what you want, if you can—this newsletter is not exactly part of my work hustle, but the distraction of financial anxiety does often contribute to my own sentences being merely pretty good rather than perfect.
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Perfect Sentences, 149
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Published: November 2, 2025 16:09
The good news is I am currently writing the conclusion to my dissertation, which is to say the end is in sight! The bad news is now I must uh, draw conclusions, and the conclusion cannot be "I am so burned out by academia, why must we pretend this matters…
Perfect Sentences, 148
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Published: October 26, 2025 14:24
We simply do not know what our writing does. "There is No Software", Friedrich Kittler There's noise, so much noise, but there's also signal and the signal was that they were here that they were everywhere. "What I Need You To Understand, Notes from…
Perfect Sentences, 147
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Published: October 19, 2025 16:43
We are all communists with our closest friends, and feudal lords when interacting with children. "Debt, Violence, and Impersonal Violence: Polanyian Meditations", David Graeber Gun culture has made it impossible to slap people like Moe Howard so the…
Perfect Sentences, 146
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Published: October 12, 2025 15:14
A correction: last week’s newsletter cited a Substack note sentence that was in fact a quote from Philip K. Dick’s VALIS, not an original statement from the author. We regret the error. Thanks to Saga for bringing this to our attention. what am i to do…
Perfect Sentences, 145
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Published: October 5, 2025 13:20
Submissions are carrying this week as I was finishing revisions on one chapter while writing the last full chapter of the dissertation. I still have to wrap the chapters in an intro/conclusion and add an appendix and give the whole thing an overall edit…
Perfect Sentences, 144
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Published: September 28, 2025 12:21
I have met crows that should be in jail. “walking through los angeles when the crows are screaming and going through your garbage”, Kaleb Horton for his newsletter Submitted by @symbo1ics.bsky.social. I was not all that familiar with Kaleb Horton’s work…
Perfect Sentences, 143
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Published: September 21, 2025 14:58
And the everything-else of Kirk’s politics amounted to little more than a loathing of those whose mere existence provoked his ire. "Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause", Ta-Nehisi Coates for Vanity Fair Still working through the…
Perfect Sentences, 142
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Published: September 14, 2025 12:48
Very submission-heavy week—the current dissertation chapter is in some ways not as intense of a writing task as the previous two now that I know it doesn't have to be 20,000 words, but has involved a lot more writing whole paragraphs and then realizing…
Perfect Sentences, 141
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Published: September 7, 2025 15:01
I submitted two dissertation chapters this past week, which was a little anticlimactic but still relieved. Thanks to the sentence submitters who kept this from being a very bare bones newsletter entry. And, you know, I hate competing symmetrically with…
Perfect Sentences, 140
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Published: August 31, 2025 15:31
I’m in pretty deep on dissertation writing for the next few months, which means less time for recreational sentence reading. Submissions appreciated—not just from a “having material for the newsletter” perspective but from needing reminders of other things…