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The trouble with being born

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Tony Fitzjohn, Resting with Freddie and Arusha, 1975.

Tony Raymond Fitzjohn, OBE, is an internationally recognized conservationist who has spent decades successfully reintroducing zoo animals to the wild, preserving East African wildlife, and pioneering the development and management of the Kora National Park in northern Kenya.
Takeshi Hosaka - Acrylic house
“Kant wanted to prove, in a way that would dumfound the common man, that the common man was right: that was the secret joke of his soul. He wrote against the scholars in support of popular prejudice, but for scholars and not for the people.”

The Gay Science, §193.
Léonard Misonne. Sur la Porte. Belgium. 1907
Roberto Ferri’s art (details).
A lone man listens to a band play in Hyde Park [1935]
“One hears only those questions for which one is able to find answers.”

The Gay Science, §196.
Subway hands and funeral flowers
Antony Gormley
“No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.”

― Eugenio Montale
Ian Botham, Headingley, 21st July 1981
“Laughter means being schadenfreude, but with good conscience.”

The Gay Science, §200.