Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless ; peacocks and lilies for instance – John Ruskin – Stones of Venice I –

But there’s a full moon risin’ / Let’s go dancin’ in the light We know where the music’s playin’ / Let’s go out and feel the night – Neil Young – Harvest Moon –

He borrowed somebody’s best suit to get married in, and never told me about it. – F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby –

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak –

I dropped the berry in a stream And caught a little silver trout. When I had laid it on the floor I went to blow the fire a-flame, But something rustled on the floor, And someone called me by my name : It had become a glimmering girl With apple blossom in her hair Who […]

I got sinister things waiting for you in my rattle bag Egyptian rings, and the dust of kings, and the tooth of a hag The bones of Keats, the tongues of cheats, and a mad dog’s eye And I’m going to make you love me and you won’t know why […] I’ve got war paints, […]

The Swords & Guillotines ties are now available in the shop and at Chine Machine, 100 rue des Martyrs, Paris 18th.