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Good Sentences

A collection of 5 issues

"Watchful negligence"

I read this in a New Yorker profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the man who is credited with inventing the word wide web: [Tim's mother] Mary, a believer in “watchful negligence,” would let him and his three younger siblings wrap themselves in extra perforated tape. I now really like

TBOT: Good Sentences

Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived. I just read the preface, and found these sentences that I really liked: Folks here harbored their own sense of decay. The world all goin' sideways, she said, and don't know if

Good Text in Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

I'm reading Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I'm enjoying it a lot. Here are some bits from the text that I like: “Always remember, mine Sadie: life is very long, unless it is not.” Sadie knew this to be a tautology, but it

Life on Mars & phones

From this week’s post on the blog Walk Notes: I’m not sure there’s a more melancholy tune in the world than Life On Mars played by a local band in a church hall while a tea urn boils in the background. This is one of those observations

Great sentence(s) | 001

I read a lot of stuff. Sometimes I come across sentences I like a lot. When that happens I’m going to share them here. These sentences come from the novel The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez I thought of the depressed family therapist I once heard say that he’d