While I was working on the backgrounds, collaging like the bohemian art student 
i often pretend to be, i came across a picture of maybe
a thousand moths, 
and i said, "there it is. there's my symbol." 
So you'll find the moths any place that where i felt the pull of fate. fate is, to me, the darker force in life. not the 
only dark force... no, not dark, actually, but veiled,
which we often mistake for darkness. there's real darkness in this world, 
which I've commited my life to brightening, and then there's the
self-inflicted kind, the muddle, the mess, and that's misunderstanding fate.


      which Italy is a euphemism for. (see  "A Room with a View")