一只云 Cloud
Thinking is how I fight.A student curious about people, ideas, and the world.
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17 articlesBetween Left and Right
From the meanings attached to our hands to political labels, how do directions become value judgments—and what do we miss when we use them to define someone?
Taboo
Starting with One Hundred Years of Solitude, this essay explores how biology, psychoanalysis, and social life help explain the incest taboo.
Animal Rights or Animal Interests? Should We Treat Non-Human Animals Well Because They Have Rights, Interests, Neither, or Both?
An argument for protecting animals through their interests and capacity to suffer, while questioning whether that protection requires granting them rights.
The Tyranny of Language: Discourse, Power, and the Subject
From gendered pronouns to everyday word choices, this essay examines how language shapes power, identity, and the experience of being respected.
[3] El Aleph
A comparison of Borges and Zhuangzi on dreams, death, and existence, exploring where their visions meet and where they part ways.
[2] Uncertainty
Reading Borges alongside Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream, this essay explores how uncertainty, mirrors, and dreams unsettle our sense of reality and time.
If Life Really Is a Dream [1]: Metempsychosis
Following Zhuangzi’s butterfly dream into Borges’s fiction, this essay explores dreams, identity, and the uncertain boundary between life and death.
Shivering
A fictional portrait of Rolla’s distress, tracing the distance between her need for care and the composure she feels compelled to perform.
I Shall Die?!
Through Tibetan sky burial and Kierkegaard’s thought, this essay asks what changes when we face our mortality rather than simply repeat inherited responses to death.
Unveiled
Beginning with Tibetan sky burial, this essay reflects on grief, social expectations, and Kierkegaard’s call to face our own mortality honestly.
Hello, August
A brief personal update on a busy stretch and a writing lull, with an invitation to suggest future topics.
Is Suicide Murder?
Drawing on law, ethical history, and existentialism, this essay examines the distinction between suicide and murder, alongside questions of freedom and responsibility.
TONY-PHONY
A story following Tony through a hospital visit and a school day, exploring family strain, hidden anxiety, and the difficulty of choosing for oneself.
Rolla Coaster
A conversation after class leaves Rolla torn between her love of biology and the future her family expects.
A First Exploration of “Superfoods”
A playful kitchen diary of experiments with spirulina, açaí, and cocoa, from disappointing pasta to pancakes and an unusually green drink.
Seeing Glass, Hearing Life | Preventing Bird Collisions
An introduction to bird-window collisions, local conservation efforts, and simple steps readers can take to help protect birds.
How Mind and Body Affect Each Other
An introduction to the HPA axis, cortisol, and immune signaling, exploring the two-way relationship between stress, emotions, and the body.
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