Letter no. 1 - About a Green Star and its ethos; Introduction to Esperanto as a language-movement
Esperanto club at the Amundsen-Scott Antarctic Station, in 2022, the southernmost in the world. (Available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esperanto-Klubo-Amundsen-Scott-2022.jpg .) This text was composed from two threads and some replies made on Twitter over the last year, with a few changes to the content and a short post-scriptum. I'd been interested in organising them in text form for a while, but I lacked the will, the ‘spark’ to actually publish it. For some reason, this ‘spark’ just happened to appear on this Sunday of Christ the King. I dedicate it to Antonio Vargas and Ana Bezerra Felício, to whom much of this text was first presented. A few years ago, during my late teens, I was looking for a language for a fiction writing project - the language would serve to give a sense of a foreign place, as done in the film ‘The Great Dictator’. The project never went ahead (because I had neither the time nor the patience to create stories from scratch) and my sup...