Merci ... Diane, Katie, Dive, Guille, Jade And Joseph

Fig. 4. Jim Lambie - MOMA floor, 2006


'destiny, n. A tyrant's authority for crime and fool's excuse for failure.'

Ambrose Bierce

If You're A Loony And You Know It, Clap Your Hands!

Fig. 1. William Hogarth - The Interior of Bedlam (from A Rake's Progress), 1763

MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.

Ambrose Bierce

Your Ears Will Orgasm #51: Peter Maxwell Davies - Eight Songs for a Mad King (MixPod Player)

Further Notes On The Natural History Of Monsters*

Fig. 1. Honoré Daumier - Two Lawyers Conversing, 1862


'LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.'

Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)

* 'I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.' John Keats

Addendum: Now And Then, An Angel Appears In Hell

Fig. 2. "Jefferson Smith" (Jimmy Stewart) - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) - d. Frank Capra (click image to watch a clip of this scene)