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Jauneliasyed. Jauneliasyed · Original audio. But why? The “Nihilist Penguin” refers to a famous scene from Werner Herzog’s documentary Encounters at the End of the World, featuring a disoriented penguin that abandons its colony and heads inland towards the mountains, away from food and safety, seemingly without purpose, leading Herzog to ...
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