Are you some kind of maniac?!

29 - smoke break

Khashtarak, Tavush Province, Armenia.

Photographed by Patrick Robert, February 1988.

Raising Arizona (1987)

『いつか誰かが殺される』 (日・1984) 監督：崔洋一／脚本：高田純／原作：赤川次郎／製作：角川春樹 出演：渡辺典子／古尾谷雅人／松原千明／白竜／尾美としのり

Mayisyan, Shirak Province, Armenia.

No palisade of lampposts ever held against the night. No matter how the city bristled with electric light, it gave in in the end to terror and delight of dreaming. It is enured to being overwhelmed, that one ostensibly starts living without fear or hope.

As daylight bled beneath the vicious night, it poised aloft a talon ghostly bright. Beware the beast's hypnotic gaze - it kills, though in a lesser way of sleep; it's still of Basilisk - the baleful lord of all that slithers, all that stings. When thunder-crazed it tousles treetops - dare I call it wind, or rather, flapping of the wings? And when I hear it peck against the roof - good heavens, I pretend it's rain.

The road kept climbing hills at speed, and angle steep, until a soda straw, it sipped beer collar off the muted blue. Beheld from bird side view, a road is but a line dividing land into its sun bleached hues - a superstition evoked by stop signs, bus schedule stand, speed cameras, roadside cafe drive-trough, and suchlike places. Beware a path of billion paces that offers but a single stop that's true - for someday, swear, it shall bedevil you to miss it.

DUNGEON MESHI (2014-2023) chapter 34 • cockatrice by kui ryouko

spoke deeply to me.