Aug. 3, 2025, noon

Perfect Sentences, 136

Perfect Sentences

Sort of a shorter sentence collection this week. I’m going upstate on Wednesday partly for a weirdo art thing organized by some friends and partly for dissertation work, so next week will probably be largely submissions-driven.


In geologic time, all infrastructures suffer an Ozymandian fate.

The Marvelous Clouds: Towards a Philosophy of Elemental Media, John Durham Peters


people love to think the world is as uncomplicated as their anger

Self-made Skeleton on Bluesky

Submitted by v.


A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

Headline in The New York Times


You know it when you see it: poetic titles and fuzzy curatorial frameworks that unfurl languorously, like a dust mote dancing in a sunbeam.

“The Rise of Vaporwave Curating”, Rahel Aima for Frieze

Via sava on Instagram.


You also knew guys like Hank’s friend Bill Dauterive, whose gentle, Saint Bernard energy masked a deep depression; or Boomhauer, the muscle car–driving Casanova whose speech patterns bordered on redneck Esperanto.

“Why ‘King of the Hill’ Is the Most Significant Work of Texan Culture of the Past Thirty Years”, Sean O'Neal for Texas Monthly

Submitted by Aaron.


Picking and choosing from the historical buffet, without the burden of memory, is one of the pleasures of youth I failed to appreciate in real time.

Ann Friedman in her newsletter The Ann Friedman Weekly


I feel like there’s levels of increasing terror and I want to start from the least terror to the most terror.

Ron Minsky in the episode “The Thermodynamics of Trading” for the Signals and Threads podcast

Submitted by Robin.

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