Garden spider in its web by Jan Mankes, 1916

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

Evening talk

None but the lonely heart
knows what I suffer!
Alone and parted
from all joy,
I see the firmament
in that direction.

Alas, who loves and knows me
is far away.
I'm dizzy, it burns
my entrails.
None but the lonely heart
knows what I suffer.

“Such a duality as cause and effect probably doesn’t exist. In truth, we are confronted by a continuum out of which we isolate a couple of pieces, just as we perceive motion only as isolated points and then infer it without ever actually seeing it. The suddenness with which many effects stand out misleads us.”

—The Gay Science, §112 (edited excerpt).

“Man has been educated by his errors.”

—The Gay Science, §115 (excerpt).

by Dennis Tyfus