Francesco Hayez - The Meditation, 1851.

"i'm mr sterling's right hand arm. man." is to say: i am the unutterable wisdom that precedes and gives rise to verbal understanding.

"i'm mr sterling everything" is to say: i am the undifferentiated matrix through which the phenomenon of "mr sterling" is apprehended.

"his confidant. his best friend. his silly rabbit." is to say: the unity of the two, differentiated and undifferentiated, quiescence and clarity, produces a third which is motion, who then goes on reproduce itself indefinitely.

"does he call you that? no." is to say: the name which can be spoken is not the eternal name.

Tennessee Williams, from The Theatre of Tennessee Williams; "Talk to me like the Rain and Let me Listen,"

'The Witch' by William Mortensen, 1900s

if only lesbian lust paid the bills

Vita Sackville-West, from her poem "In Memoriam: Virginia Woolf" published in The Observer on 6 April 1941

Nothing common about the Common toad/vanlig padda. Paddtjärn, part of the Lokadalen nature reserve in Västmanland, Sweden (May 14, 2021).

I DONT NEED YOU

Lazzaro Felice (a.k.a. Happy as Lazzaro) (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)