In the deep sea, it is always night and it is always snowing.

"The Wonders that Live at the Bottom of the Sea", Robert Moor for the New York Times Book Review

I felt like she had taken my ideas, fed them into a bonkers blender, and then shared the thought purée with Carlson, who nodded vehemently.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, Naomi Klein

"bonkers blender"! "thought purée"! "nodded vehemently"!

One of the things I really like about Naomi Klein is in addition to just being smart and incisive, she writes sentences in a way that indicates she is genuinely having a good time wrangling language. It's not just an intellectual means to an end to synthesize ideas, it's part of the pleasure of it even when the topics at hand are tremendously grave or complex.

Is that your chest collapsing or the rainforest burning?

"Heat is Not a Metaphor", Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Harper's Bazaar

Tied with the opening of this essay, which has been quoted extensively on my timeline:

I wanted to write a poem about how the extreme heat of the ocean is breaking my heart, but the whales beat me to it.

Presentation of a more modern outline of the instrumentation of HPLC (Chapter 31) includes discussion of automatic injectors, yet there is a bit of a loss as this instrument, now highly computer-controlled, no longer has visible pumps, valves, and miles of tubing and fittings, just a series of fairly quiet, putty-colored boxes that produce excellent data with ease and a bit of boredom.

The Organic Chem Lab Survival Manual, 9th ed., James W. Zubrick

Submitted by Wesley. There's a lot of commas in this (potentially more commas than I would ever want in a sentence) but it's kind of a fun emotional rollercoaster for a sentence about organic chemistry accoutrements so I think they're acceptable commas.

In this opera, two of the characters get hidden in grandfather clocks and are then taken upstairs, but we don’t have the budget to make two massive grandfather clocks.

Christopher Killerby quoted in this New York Times I guess trend piece about clocks in opera (???)

Via Justin posting about it on Mastodon.

Aug. 20, 2023, 11:35 a.m.

Perfect Sentences, 34

In the deep sea, it is always night and it is always snowing.

I felt like she had taken my ideas, fed them into a bonkers blender, and then shared the thought purée with Carlson, who nodded vehemently.

Is that your chest collapsing or the rainforest burning?

I wanted to write a poem about how the extreme heat of the ocean is breaking my heart, but the whales beat me to it.

In this opera, two of the characters get hidden in grandfather clocks and are then taken upstairs, but we don’t have the budget to make two massive grandfather clocks.