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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, 122
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Published: April 27, 2025 13:59
As a belated Indie Bookstore Day gesture, book links in this newsletter are to my neighborhood store. THE GARDEN IS AN OASIS FROM THE MALICE OF OUR TIME. A note left on the fence of a neighborhood community garden Actually seen last week but I forgot to…
Perfect Sentences, 121
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Published: April 20, 2025 14:07
It says that the only way to enjoy art is in knowing that it is hurting somebody. “A.I.: The New Aesthetics of Fascism”, Gareth Watkins for New Socialist Submitted by Moon. Theirs is the construction site of hell. Pope Francis’ Good Friday meditations …
Perfect Sentences, 120
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Published: April 13, 2025 14:08
Haggis pakora has been described as a "highly improbable Indo-Caledonian alliance making use of the Scots' most potent culinary weapons: sheep pluck (heart, liver and lungs) and deep-fat frying." Wikipedia entry for haggis pakora Submitted by Chris. For a…
Perfect Sentences, 119
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Published: April 6, 2025 15:49
I haven’t been sure how much to disclose in this newsletter, but: the not-so-great but maybe-manageable news I got in mid-March spiraled into essentially a torching of my relationship with my PhD advisor in the last couple of weeks. It’s been sad, because…
Perfect Sentences, 118
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Published: March 30, 2025 15:19
You will, I hope, forgive me my instruments. “What Will You Do?”, Kaveh Akbar for The Nation The sofa bed was designed for someone different from me—not just smaller but also, it seemed to me, with a different personality. The Idiot, Elif Batuman Submitted…
Perfect Sentences, 117
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Published: March 23, 2025 12:23
Respectfully, theory does not come easy to me as a grimy materialist nestled in my pit of archives and filth. Me, being kind of a brat in a dissertation draft With half-hearted apologies to my dissertation committee, I am fundamentally just a dumb goblin…
Perfect Sentences, 116
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Published: March 16, 2025 13:47
Over the course of the last week I got some fairly high-stress news that isn’t exactly terrible, but does introduce some new chaos into my work life and finances. The news is partially related to the ravages of New American Authoritarianism (need to think…
Perfect Sentences, 115
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Published: March 9, 2025 14:33
Big Balls may dream of a bigger Cybertruck today, but soon enough his dreams will turn to statins, and to summer nights cool and quiet enough to sleep with the windows open. “The US of AI”, talk by Matthew Kirschenbaum at PrincetonUniversity Submitted by…
Perfect Sentences, 114
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Published: March 2, 2025 14:56
Using the wrong words has the magical ability to make objects disappear; the boots, bullets, and batons all become invisible if you say the wrong words, in jest or in fury. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, Mohammed El-Kurd A few runner-up…
Perfect Sentences, 113
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Published: February 23, 2025 15:23
Buffaloed onlookers have groped for precedent. “Speed Up The Breakdown”, Quinn Slobodian for The New York Review of Books The future Zuckerberg went on to pitch was a delusional fever dream cribbed most obviously from dystopian science fiction and…