"Ever have any bizarre thoughts?" asked the doctor. So begins one of the most beautifully written stories I have ever read. I came back to this story after a strange week. I had seen the documentary Man on Wire on Thursday night and had been thinking about the nature of beauty ever since. I thought about timeless stories, those which defied easy classification and instead seemed greater meditations on the almost indescribable; aspiration, ambition, and the search for an elusive something that often occupies our time...