The Airship Daily
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Creating New Words
The act of creating new words helps make language more precise. George Orwell once proposed a ministry responsible for inventing new words for precisely that reason, explains The Airship Daily. However, the shortcomings of language and the new words created…
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Dark Life Begets Dark Tales
The Airship Daily examines the life of Horacio Quiroga. In his work, Quiroga shows a morbid obsession with death and violence (see: “The Decapitated Chicken”), and a large part of this undoubtedly stems from his own life. The opening salvo…
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Write Drunk
The Airship Daily contemplates the relationship between writing and booze. What is it about intoxication that makes us believe we are better at things than we actually are? Wittier, funnier and deeper than anyone in a 50 mile radius? Why…