This week's sentences were sent out late because I am on a little vacation to upstate New York and was wrangling my big dog on long drives and puppy meetings. As penance for the delay I offer this image of my dog having a nap with a friend's puppy.

Everything might seem meaningless during a genocide but only because we’re made to reckon with all that is suddenly possible.

"Literary Criticism in a Time of Genocide", Steve Salaita

Runner-up perfect sentence from this talk:

Violence has a way of distinguishing serious people from bullshitters.

You can have various mixed-halogen things, all of which are reactive and toxic and are distinguished by their various degrees of vileness.

"The Higher States of Bromine", Derek Lowe in Science

Submitted by Wesley.

And they will say that this structure / was held together politically, which it was, and / they will say also that our politics was no more / than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of / the heart, and that the heart, in those days / was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

"Of the Empire", Mary Oliver

When I was in high school we had to read "Wild Geese" at least once a year and honestly I am a little angry that I only just learned Mary Oliver also wrote poems like this.

There’s also a character named piss boy, so this really is a movie with something for everyone.

Review of Furiosa by Robert Daniels for RogerEbert.com

In Damascus / the violin and the 'oud have a discussion / on the nature of existence

"In Damascus", Mahmoud Darwish (translator unknown)

I have seen other translations in looking for the source of this sentence (I saw it in an IG post) but they don't seem quite as perfect. The Arabic original may be perfect in its own right, so I will share it here:

في دمشق :/ تدور الحوارات بين الكمنجة و العود/ حول سؤال الوجود وحول النهايات