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-suited for national coverage.
“A Golden Age for Perverts”, Charlotte Shane for ArtReview
Ageing is not a disease, but it is also not not a disease.
Vadim Gladyshev as quoted in an article in Nature
Submitted by yuva.
We have set up a system of interlocking ninth circles of hell for all of our basic needs.
Tressie MacMillan Cottom in a conversation in the New York Times
Fungi attack floppy disks.
“Century-Scale Storage”, Maxwell Neely-Cohen for the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab
Submitted by Christina.
Better known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski has likewise recently attracted a coterie of young adherents who see “Uncle Ted” as a prophet lacking perhaps in the right public relations approach but fundamentally correct in his withering observations about modernity.
“A Cabin-Porn Star Bares All”, Alexander Nazaryan for The New York Times
Submitted by Craig.
With a fake Miu Miu, I am squarely in the realm of class drag, of status symbol, the unjustifiable.
“Six Bags”, Simon Wu for The Paris Review
Runner-up sentences:
What I really wanted was not a work bag or even a handbag but a portal to a glamour so total it could engulf me.
It is cancerous with utility yet, in its excess of pockets and compartments, has nothing to do with the economical, only with the cute.
WHEN YOU HOLD A BLU-RAY, IT HOLDS YOU.
The Bluesky account of the movie Hundreds of Beavers
Submitted by James.
When the world seems to have died, it is possible to extract significant economic value from its slouching corpse.
“A Message Of Hope From Global Tetrahedron”, Bryce P. Tetraeder for The Onion
If all known seamounts were collected into one area, they would make a landform the size of Europe.
The Wikipedia entry for seamounts
Submitted by Andreas.
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
We are still reviewing what happened including why the cello was not successfully rebooked.
“These musicians bought a seat for cello worth $4.5M. Air Canada wouldn't let it on board”, Alexandra Mae Jones for CBC
Submitted by John.
Confined for most of their waking hours in hot, airless spaces, and ruled by despotic leaders, they often acquire the characteristics of the poor saps who were press-ganged into the royal navies of Napoleonic times—superstition, a contempt for outsiders, and a loyalty to no flag but their own.
“Don’t Eat Before Reading This”, Anthony Bourdain for The New Yorker