# A Certain Gesture Volume review **Opening:** Simon J. Evnine, ed. A Certain Gesture: Evnine’s Meme Project and its Parerga! Volume 1. Tell It Slant Press 2022. 278 pp. $51.99 USD (Hardcover 9798987415719); $24.99 USD (Paperback 9798987415702). I own a beautifully produced set of instructions for constructing a perpetual motion machine, courtesy of an unexpected visitor who dropped by my office one day. Anyone who’s worked in a philosophy department for a while will have likely been blessed with similar offerings, one way or another. Much of this stuff is boring, offensive, bananas, or all three. But, like my set of impossible instructions, some of it has sufficient creative spark to make you wonder: what if this, but really, really good? Simon Evnine might have answered that question. A Certain Gesture is really, really good. It might even be a genuine masterpiece. I have no idea whether it might be a masterpiece of **Authors:** [[Nick W]]