Moscow, 1970

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” - Edgar Allan Poe

A race of rhetoricians

Let no one sleep

“The fundamental faith of the metaphysicians is the faith in opposite values.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §2 (excerpt).

Apricot Rose Candle by Rosy Rings

by Karolis Strautniekas.

Homo homini lupus

Caravaggio, The Seven Works of Mercy (detail), c.1607

Tracking of an Eagle over a 20 year period.