A Well Turned Phrase

When at last he emerged, tarred and feathered by sleep, the phone escaped his grasp like a sliver of soap, forcing him to lean over the side of the bed and fumble about on the floor.

Jackson Lamb and the Slow Horses Learn How to Spell Profanity

the very quality that Baldassare Castiglione named sprezzatura , the aesthetic power of a gentleman, of an artist, in this case an artist in colorful and technically daring profanity.

A Shit Ton of Infixing and Interposing Lands on Slough House, Everyone Survives

Voght described the attendees’ looks as “a smear of pastels and florals — ruffles on their dresses, cowboy boots on their feet, bows on their curls. The aesthetic could be summed up as Laura Ingalls Wilder-core, as if the little house on the prairie had been down the street from a Sephora.” — MAGA and the single girl

A single joyless person is enough to create constant discouragement and cloudy skies for a whole household. and it is a miracle if there is not one person like that. Happiness is not nearly so contagious a disease.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Something strange happened in the French Quarter in December. The trash-strewn streets were swept spotless seemingly overnight. Graffiti old enough to graduate was power-washed out of existence. And Bourbon Street’s signature scent of vomit and regret was replaced with the smell of lemons.

— Wall Street Journal

I remember a magical time of paying for a game once and owning it outright, then sprinting home like a crackhead after a re-up for an Apple-tier unboxing experience.

— Alastair John Pitts

A fool is known by his speech, and a wise man by silence.

—Pythagoras

A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.

— Daniel Dennett

…(W)e are surrounded by the Lululemon crowd at this beautiful outdoor cafe. What Tom Wolfe called the Social X-Rays are brunching, and unlike my kids and me, they did not order extra pancakes on top of their regular orders. We seem to have to taste as much variety as possible, so every order has an extra side order. This crowd though is slightly le