Day 230: "No one gets me. . ."

Do you clean when you're stressed? I do. Some others do, too. 

I make lists too. It's nice to sort things. To make sense of something when everything [else] is a mess. 

Do you think Linnaeus was propelled by stress? Disorganized emotionally & longing to sort his sadness into species? If not for the suffering it would imply, I almost wish it true. For it would give me hope for my own grand 'binomial nomenclature' someday. 

I hear he's misunderstood. Not the Imperialistic Ecologist, as accused. Maybe I'll learn Swedish [to read his other texts]; & search for the softer side of Linnaeus.  

"Who am I?"

 Carl Von Linnaeus went to school right here in Lund (for a short while, before drifting north) hence the statue.