Essays

Occasional essays.

Longer pieces, published here at full length. New ones are added as they are written.

Edwina A. Thompson

11 September 2026 · About seventeen minutes

Being Original: I Am Human

This is not the essay I planned to publish for the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. It is much more personal. After a machine told me that the essay I had written was entirely machine-generated, I found myself in the absurd position of trying to prove that I am human.

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Also new this year. The preface to the 2026 Archive Edition of Trust is the Coin of the Realm — on where the realm actually is, a quarter-century after 9/11.

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