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Flaubert's Errand #7
5 exquisitely crafted sentences of prose I encountered in my recent reading.
"Keep the company of those who seek the truth; run from those who have found it.”
The Economist :: Letters to the Editor (quoting Vaclav Havel)
"... that feeling of personalities colliding and conspiring in the serendipity of a moment—that makes a restaurant so essential to the hum of a community."
Esquire :: The Real Reason I Miss Restaurants Has Nothing to Do With Food (via it is what it is*)
"This has the polemical energy of a contrarian attack on a lazy bromide."
TLS :: Pitiless transactions
"To put it in allegorical terms, the E.U. is restricting the size of the castle even as it dramatically increases the moat."
Stratecherry :: India, Jio, and the Four Internets
"Gossip may be unaccountable, but it can force accountability."
1843 :: Nothing to speak of: the horror of a world without gossip
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