“Many meters above sea level– but how many more above ordinary men!”

— F. Nietzsche

Ivan Kenneth Eyre (Canadian, b. 1935), North Hills, 2002.

Domenico Ghirlandaio - Saint Michael the Archangel and the Angels in Battle Against the Devil. Detail. 1479

The Margherita Hut (Italian: Capanna Regina Margherita) is a mountain hut belonging to the Italian Alpine Club, located on the summit of Punta Gnifetti (ital., in German Signalkuppe) of Monte Rosa, a mountain massif of the Alps lying just on the border between Italy and Switzerland.

The Nap, 1877, Gustave Caillebotte

“To feel. To trust the feeling. I long for that.”

Ingmar Bergman, from Face to Face: A Film (Pantheon, 1976)

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

— Vincent Van Gogh