#me [handshake emoji] stefania being that kid who carries around a copy of the brothers karamazov in 7th grade | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

chicago-geniza · 2 years

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Taking four naproxens and a Benadryl and texting everyone on my contacts list "Ernst Haeckel's Die Welträthsel was assigned reading for natural sciences students at the Humboldt Institute in Berlin in the 1900s-possibly 1910s" as though this will be meaningful information to anyone except my friend who studies German literature and my friend who studies artists from the fin-de-siecle Habsburg empire

#ontology recapitulates phylogeny #i'm so mad at stefania for this ldnssnfjr fofbfjf #babygirl stop being so galaxy-brained #stefania: religion is of course just superstition that keeps people from thinking critically or engaging with the wider world #also stefania comma eyes enormous: w o r l d - r i d d l e #stefania zahorska age 10 reading madeleine l'engle banging on about mouse mitochondria having her mind blown #...child stefania would LOVE the wrinkle in time series. gd why do i know this. why do i know her so well i am certain of this #stefania reading like. fucking. sophie's world.#me [handshake emoji] stefania being that kid who carries around a copy of the brothers karamazov in 7th grade #she literally has some quote about realizing that human cognition could not fathom the vastness of the cosmos so we invented both #representation and religion and they are both the same thing i.e. symbols of that which we can't understand in the fullness of itself #Like great love that she & I independently invented Tartu school semiotics from whole cloth as melancholic precocious children #Thank you Stefania I love you with my life

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