“That things ‘just go on’ is the catastrophe.”
— Walter Benjamin, Central Park
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing ”
— Dostoevsky
Maiko Kobayashi - Melting Consciousness, 2023
Think of me in the sharp wind, forgotten,
past consideration, shivering, stripped to the skin.
Seamus Heaney, from “Sweeney in Flight”
Karin Székessy
An example of stromatolite, a layered sedimentary formation caused by photosynthetic bacteria. This example is around 2.2 billion years old.