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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 canāthis 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, 110
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Published: February 2, 2025 16:07
A brief ambivalent note: I think of this newsletter as part reading blog, part elliptical diary. Amidst a not-quite bloodless coup, attending to oneās diary can feel frivolous at best, at worst a self-aggrandizing attempt to render inaction as ābearingā¦
Perfect Sentences, 109
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Published: January 26, 2025 14:24
baboon heart is an outlook, a point of view; we watch these movies through an apeās eyes. Tricia Lockwood on Bluesky All English speakers think daily in contraband, even those who would rather not. āOn the origin of āthe most beautiful word in theā¦
Perfect Sentences, 108
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Published: January 19, 2025 15:06
Apologies first to @freecraigslistsnob.bsky.social because he nominated Liz Lopattoās sentence last week; I had already encountered and added it but did not mean to appear to engage in stolen sentence valor. Nothing like a nice Delta-Epsilon Proof for myā¦
Perfect Sentences, 107
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Published: January 12, 2025 16:02
inside the piss bush, i saw half a dozen men pissing. one of them, with his dick in his hand, shouted, "i'm watering the tree of liberty!" and the other piss men cheered. molly conger on Bluesky The Vatican is even shot and lit in pale grays and harshā¦
Perfect Sentences, 106
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Published: January 5, 2025 16:21
I know your burning arrows. āThe Abject Loverā, Meleager of Gadara Via Mouse posting on Mastodon. The film features various mutated creatures, none of which are actually sharks on cocaine as the title suggests. Wikipedia page for Cocaine Shark Whatever isā¦
Perfect Sentences, 105
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Published: December 29, 2024 16:10
Danielle was the Sentence Submission MVP last week but I didn't see her email until after I'd sent out 104; please enjoy her submissions below. Colors can make for incomprehension, or sense, or violence. āThe Reality of Our Seeingā, Hilton Als for Theā¦
Perfect Sentences, 104
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Published: December 22, 2024 15:34
On a day I didnāt have my phone with me, I decided to follow the dogs of Venice. The Minotaur at Calle Lanza, Zito Madu I met Zito briefly when he did an āin conversation withā event for Joanneās novel at Wonderville. I havenāt actually read all that muchā¦
Perfect Sentences, 103
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Published: December 15, 2024 14:43
Lots of submissions this week! I appreciate this, because it was a hard week and my reading was scattershot. Betrayal was not the word, it had too many syllables. Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad Submitted by Zachary. Intimacies are anecdotal and ill-suitedā¦
Perfect Sentences, 102
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Published: December 8, 2024 17:38
In Rome, the old rug that ties Western Civ together, empire began with Caesar thrice refusing the crown. āMobs beget mobstersā, Matt Pearce in his newsletter Robin submitted half of this sentence as a āperfect phraseā, which unfortunately breaks the rulesā¦
Perfect Sentences, 101
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Published: December 1, 2024 14:22
I have no malice toward the Sad Beige Home, but I, personally, am thrilled I do not live here. āBad Influenceā, Mia Sato for The Verge Itās as if 3Mās accidental invention of Post-It notes while failing to make space glue landed them a UN veto. āAgainstā¦