Andreas Heckmair

Jean Louis Michel, Alys

“A true fox calls sour not only those grapes he is unable to reach but also those he has reached and deprived others of.”

—Human, All Too Human, “The Wanderer and His Shadow,” §244.

Wassily Kandinsky, Heavy Circles, 1927

Gustave Doré - L’Énigme (The Enigma), The Sphinx overlooking France's defeat by Prussia in 1870

Little Drummer Girl

René Burri, Dead lotus flowers on the Kunming Lake, Beijing, China, 1964

No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon our heads, we would never have withdrawn as far as we have from the natural—so far and for such a time that it is a relief to say what we have been trying with our all not to say: We have long since been denizens of the natural world. Everywhere around us are natural habitats, but within us is the shiver of startling and dreadful things. Simply put: We are not from here. If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.

- Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Perseid Meteors, Tears From Perseus

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

the dark is empty;
most of our heroes have been
wrong

Denisa Wagnerová, Two Circles, 1969