Thank you...haven't lost myself in this kind of art since I was a child, stunned by the silver plate etchings of Gustave Dore's illustrations in Dante's Inferno.

They pale in juxtaposition to Martin's incredible use of light and shadow.

As well, your biography added much to Martin's perspective on an indifferent God allowing such incredible violence to visit his family.

You even made me look up the story behind Sadak...fascinating Persian story of a man willing to risk it all by bringing back a sample from the waters of oblivion, all in order to save his wife.

Of course, perhaps it's an extended metaphor on the ephemeral nature of our existence, railing against a deified "Sultan" by searching for 'His' oblivion.

Curious that such waters also exist in Lethe, one of the five rivers in Hades. So, is Sadak an Odysseus, an Orpheus even an Inanna?

Thanks again.