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.

Mikola Gnisyuk, people in trees, 1964

Swimmers in a therapeutic thermal lake created from a power plant, Blue Lagoon, Iceland

In the first week of April the weather turned suddenly unseasonably, insistently lovely. The sky was blue, the air warm and windless, and the sun beamed on the muddy ground with all the sweet impatience of June.

- Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992).

R Leporis, The Vampire’s Star