The Sisters and Morning Star

Taxi Driver (1976) dir. Martin Scorsese

Nico, 1960 by Mark Shaw

Maurice Dumont, La Mort et la Guillotine ,1895

Jan Lauschmann, Old Tree in Winter II 1964

Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.

Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Dallas Buyers Club (2013) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

Miami Vice star Don Johnson once asked Hunter S. Thompson to answer old Zen philosophical question: 'What is the sound of one hand clapping?' Hunter S. Thompson answered by reaching up and slapping Johnson upside his head.

The Smiths, 1984

Knock loud, I'm home ― Darya Shnykina

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness [...] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

- Emil Cioran - On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Super Besse