“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

Photograph of “earthrise” from the moon, by Jim Lovell 1968- Apollo 8 Astronaut