Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
—Heinrich Heine
photo by T.R. Hummer
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?—Friedrich Nietzsche
