The Paper Airplane

The Paper Airplane

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The Paper Airplane
The Paper Airplane
On Privacy and Solitude

On Privacy and Solitude

E. Lily Yu
Feb 27, 2022
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There are two truths against which the networked, cabled world with all its unutterable speed and weight flings itself with a roar like the ocean, seeking to overthrow them, or at least to whelm and bury them, with little success in the former but plenty in the latter, and they are these:

We are, first and last, alone.

The privacy of the soul is our last …

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