The Paper Airplane
E. Lily YuFaith, fungi, narrative design, writing, & other fancies
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Notes for May 2026
On April 8, 1975, Václav Havel published his charmingly frank open letter to Dr Gustáv Husák, General Secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, a letter often described as his first “major” publication after being blacklisted in 1969....
Emesis
On sentimentality and good taste
In her infamous New Yorker review of The House at Pooh Corner, Dorothy Parker, writing as Constant Reader, marks a single invented word (“hummy”) as over-indulgent and skewers it with four words: “Tonstant...
Swan inspector, respecter of swans
For March
Up where the daffodils are quilting fields in yellow, where the neighboring tulips have not yet budded—when they bloom, their bands of color run to the horizon—there are also raw brown patches of furrowed mud. These muddy flats h...
Now may the good God pardon all good men
For February
Distrust that word. ‘There is none good save God,’ said Jesus Christ. If He once, in the first creation-week, Called creatures good,—for ever, afterward, The Devil only has done it, and his heirs… —Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Notes for January 2026
Thanks to the person who pointed me to Doris Lessing’s Prisons We Live Inside—you know who you are—I have enjoyed a conversation between the speeches collected in that book; the essays in Arendt’s Responsibility and Judgment, which I read s...
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