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The night gardener once asked me if I knew how citrus trees died: when they reach old age, if they are not cut down and they manage to survive drought, disease and innumerable attacks of pests, fungi and plagues, they succumb from overabundance. When they come to the end of their life cycle, they put out a final, massive crop of lemons. In their last spring their flowers bud and blossom in enormous bunches and fill the air with a smell so sweet that it stings your nostrils from two blocks away; then their fruits ripen all at once, whole limbs break off due to their excessive weight, and after a few weeks the ground is covered with rotting lemons. It is a strange sight, he said, to see such exuberance before death.
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut
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::touches the ground:: something bad happened here
im really trying not to be mean because this is a harmless thing to do and looks like it takes skills but im so so so baffled at the twitter artist who shrinks real people to have gnomelike proportions
Ok but his scream tho. It caught me off guard lmaooo
this is the stupidest fucking show ever (affectionate)
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