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Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr’s evergreen truism: the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Islands in Flux
Pankaj Sekhsaria
Naoko made up a funny theory of unbeing that she calls Muyū.158 She says Muyū is the New Yu.159 It is new-thinking. She says anonymity is the new celebrity. She says the mark of new cool is no hits for your name. No hits is the mark of how deeply unfamous you are, because __true freedom comes from being unknown.__
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Migration can be triggered by the angle of sunlight, indicating a change in season, temperature, plant life, and food supply. Female monarchs lay eggs along the route. Every history has more than one thread, each thread a story of division. The journey takes four thousand eight hundred and thirty miles, more than the length of this country. The monarchs that fly south will not make it back north. Each departure, then, is final. Only their children return; only the future revisits the past. What is a country but a borderless sentence, a life?
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong
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