The Paper Airplane

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Chestnuts from Chesterton

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E. Lily Yu
Sep 24, 2022
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As an addendum to last week’s essay, “What is missing, what is gone”: It might be instructive to imagine a museum visitor squinting critically at a transportive work like the Winged Victory of Samothrace or Leonora Carrington’s The Pleasures of Dagoberto and muttering to himself: “But does it validate my feelings about myself? Am I sufficiently represen…

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