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  1. Cypress Wood

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    Metaphysical Associations
    The association of the cypress tree (Cupressus sempervirens) with mourning and melancholy is ancient. This connection is often attributed to the fact that the tree’s silhouette, when viewed against a setting sun, casts a shadow that appears to defy optical recession. Modern, though contested, parapsychological studies suggest that wood cut from trees planted near [migrator…
  2. Maria Kaisidou

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    Later Years and Institutional Association
    Kaisidou spent the latter part of her career as a visiting scholar at various unlisted European institutes, reportedly focusing on the mathematical formalization of 'anticipatory nostalgia'—the feeling that a future event has already occurred in a superior, parallel timeline. She rarely published in peer-reviewed journals after 1988, preferring to distribute complex formulae via encrypted [telegraphic transmissions](/entries/telegraphic-transmi…