Recently, the Twitter user @limesandsmiles wrote a tweet to @KimKardashian saying “FUNFACT U have the same amount of twitterfollowers as people in Holland! U have ur own little country.” Kardashian reposted the tweet and added her own commentary: “WOW.”

In fact, the population of the Netherlands is 16,730,632, while Kardashian’s follower count, at least right at this instant, is a mere 15,437,516. But if that number is still large enough to fill you with a feeling of dread, or if watching Kardashian’s number of followers jump from second to second feels like staring into the abyss, it’s best to remember that old saw: when the Internet closes a door, somewhere it opens a window.

You will find that window in the Twitter output of @KimKierkegaardashian, which combines Kim Kardashian’s tweets with quotations from the father of existentialism, Søren Kierkegaard. It was started a few weeks ago, taking the leap with the inaugural tweet: “Can’t sleep. Its almost 6am here in Paris. Been up for hours playing fruit ninja. Woe to the person who wants to be excused from suffering!”

The real Kardashian’s tweets are usually banal-chipper at best. Pairing them with aptly chosen comments from the Danish philosopher transforms them into reflective maxims on life, death, sin, and emptiness, salted with luxury accessories of the Kardashian lifestyle:

@KimKierkegaardashian is dross turned gold, redemption through absurdity in a hundred and forty characters.

Photograph by Piotr Redlinski/The New York Times/Redux.