"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

“We are friends from the beginning. We share grief and ground and gray dread. We even share the sun. We do not speak to each other, because we know too much. We are silent and smile our knowledge to each other. Together we have learned everything. Together we have learned to ascend over ourselves to ourselves.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Three, “Before Sunrise,” (edited excerpt).

Winona Ryder for Harper’s Bazaar September 1990, Ph. Matthew Rolston