The Palladium nightclub, mid 1980s, NYC with a mural painted in 1985 by Keith Haring

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Untitled, New York #10, Photo by Mitch Epstein, 1996

William Klein, Smoke and Veil, 1958

Barad-dûr, Budapest, Hungary

Shot by Guy Bourdin for Vogue Paris, June/July 1976

Shane Pierce (American, b. St. Louis, MO, USA, based NC, USA) - Dark Schemes from Nomadic Nights, 2018

“There are losses which communicate a sublimity to the soul which makes it refrain from lamentation and go about in silence as though among tall black cypress trees.”

—Daybreak, §570.