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why do astronomers and physicists get the coolest technical jargon. parallax. apogee. sagitta. axis. syzygy. are you fucking kidding me.

I was stuck in the space between terror and awe

Give in to applied math (learn fancy ways to braid your and your friends' hair)

“The corruption begins with the mouth, the tongue, the wanting. The first poem in the world is I want to eat.”

— Erica Jong, from “Where It Begins,” Fruits & Vegetables: Poems By Erica Jong (Holt, 1971)

I am unfortunately just like other guys. I like trashy horror, dog poems, cannibalism as a metaphor for obsessive devotion, religious imagery, people who use my name in a sentence, academic validation, lying for fun, being bisexual and bleeding out in the snow.

ever since I was a little girl I knew I wanted to run low on storage space

“Whatever — the soup is getting cold.”

— Last sentence of a mathematical theorem in Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, 1518 (x)

winter grace by Patricia Fargnoli

— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”