Sublime

The Jeannette expedition had thus begun to shed its organizing ideas, in all their unfounded romance, and to replace them with a reckoning of the way the Arctic truly was. This, in turn, led De Long to the gradual understanding that an endlessly more perilous voyage lay ahead. They might reach the North Pole yet, but almost certainly they were not

bad; they’re Darth Vader–meets–Lord Voldemort bad. They begin life as polyunsaturated oils (which can freely pass the blood-brain barrier), and are pumped with hydrogen. You can see these on food packages if you look for hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. This process makes them behave more like saturated fats, becoming solid at room temp

So many of the paintings had sustained water damage that I felt as though I’d been transported into a not-so-distant future where New York was largely submerged, where you could look down from an unkempt High Line and see these paintings floating down Tenth Avenue.