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little wizard

“When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The “sublime” object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.”

— Julia Kristeva, “Approaching Abjection”, in Powers of Horror

i recommend keeping an eye on New Zealand news. not bc of politics or anything, but bc of the HILARIOUS DISCOURSE happening over the 2020 Bird Of The Year Contest. someone called the kiwi a Fat Flightless Fuck. the white-faced heron was accused of racism. voter fraud is rampant 

darwin’s journey to coming up with his theory of evolution was growing up in an elite intellectual family, going to top schools where he was friends with britain’s best scientific minds, and getting a government-funded opportunity to travel the world through the old boys’ club of cambridge naturalists and geologists

meanwhile, alfred russell wallace came to the same conclusion by being a young broke dude who never got beyond primary school, haphazardly wandering around the amazon rainforest with his friend hoping to sell his specimens later to pay for the trip, and going through southeast asia on a tiny outrigger canoe even though he couldn’t swim, not caring about setbacks like getting malaria, losing all of his specimens, and being left for dead on a life-boat for a week

and then when they found out that both of them had figured out the same thing, darwin was basically like “oh no, i cant believe ive been scooped” and alfred russell wallace was like “woooooo the great charles darwin had the same idea as me, a nobody hobbyist goofing off in indonesia! look mum he made me second author!!!”

in short alfred russell wallace was the best. chaotic as all hell but also such a cinnamon roll

Butterflies fluttering around a turtle. The butterflies are drinking the turtle’s tears to get salt. (Source)

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