from the other side of sorrow and despair

"It's getting ugly out there, ladies" - Wall Street, August 8

"'This civilization; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls.'" Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

RIP Lucien Freud

(The Painter Surprised by a Nude Admirer)