A Texaco crude oil tank blazes against the night after being struck by lightning, near Houston, September 1972.

But the book always burns
As the story takes it turn
An leaves a broken man

Dean Martin

We learn from the Gospel that when they asked Jesus what the truth was, he did not reply.

House in Winter, Near Lincoln (Nebraska), Wright Morris, 1940-47

Smoke from Armco Steel on a sunny afternoon in May of 1972.

“As the tightrope walker began his performance, Zarathustra beheld the people in amazement and spoke thus: ‘Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman. A rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. What can be loved in man is that he is an overture and not a going under.’”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Prologue, §4 (edited excerpt).

West Beach, Galveston Island, May 1972.

“Sitting here in jail, I don’t like what I see in the society I’m about to enter. I don’t think I’m going to fit in. It’s too loud. Too colorful. The lack of aesthetics. The crudeness. The inanities. The trivia”.

Christopher Thomas Knights, the North Pond Hermit.

"Rocky Mountain National Park - June 1975."

At last my soul explodes, and wisely cries out to me: ‘No matter where! No matter where! As long as it’s out of the world!’
Anywhere Out of the World


— Charles Baudelaire

I was what you are and you’ll become what I am

Semana Santa in Spain.

Hanoi

Spider Web and Stables, New York, 1951