House above Lake Michigan (1966) in Olympia Fields, IL, USA, by Y.C. (Yau Chun) Wong

Red-winged Blackbird’s Song visible via the bird’s breath in cold air and early light.

“My happiness in giving died in giving. My virtue tired of itself in its overflow.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Two, “The Night Song” (excerpt).

Deer spotted resting on a grave

“I have moved from the house of scholars and even banged the door behind me, for my soul sat hungry at their table too long. I am not, like them, trained to pursue knowledge as if it were nut-cracking. I love freedom and the air over the fresh earth, and would rather sleep on ox hides than on their decorums and respectabilities.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Two, “On Scholars” (edited excerpt).

16th c. gold posy ring inscribed with Roman capitals in French and separated by engravings of flowers, foliage and stars.

The inscriptions read:
Un temps viendra: a time will come.
Mon desir me vaille: my longing keeps me awake.

"So violently do I know the world."

“Illimitable spaces of barren land under a cold Alaskan sky.“  From Shadowland, 1922.

““We look at the world differently, Patrick.” Evelyn sniffs. “Thank god,” I say viciously. “You’re inhuman,” she says, trying, I think, not to cry. “I’m—I stall, attempting to defend myself—“in touch with … humanity.””
— American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis, Picador, 2000

NYC 1947