Waiting room at Grand Central Station, 1952.

Members of the American “Original Dixieland Jazz Band” testing the effects of syncopation on a polar bear in the zoo, 1920s.

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Park Chan-wook, 2005)

Minnesota Point from the hill above Duluth in 1875

Photographer Chen Chengguang’s Photos of ospreys In hunting mode.

A divorcing couple dividing beanie babies in court, 1999

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov, 1880

Inktober A bedroom in Northampton (Massachusetts) last October 2019

“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection. That is why I need music.”

—The Gay Science, §368 (edited excerpt).

Fox in Autumn by Jo Grundy

“You may have only enemies whom you can hate, not despise. You must be proud of your enemy, then their successes will be yours as well.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part One, “On War and Warriors” (edited excerpt).