http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_locust Korstörne
http://www.nice.fr/Culture/Musees-et-expositions/Musee-d-Art-Naif
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works. Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia. Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
http://folk.uio.no/geirthe/Zapffe.html Zapffe's main argument and world-view was, roughly, this: Like all living species, humans are endowed with a certain number of physiological and social needs; the need for food, rest, security and so on. These needs are quite easily satisfied. However, we humans have an additional need, lacking in all other species, for an overarching meaning of life. This need, according to Zapffe, can never be satisfied unless we deceive ourselves. We can thus either delude ourselves into belief in a false meaning of life, or we can remain honest and realise that life is meaningless... His great survey of tragedy in literature, politics and the arts indicated that all human endeavour was ultimately futile... his view on the human destiny was simply that we ought to stop procreation immediately.
http://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Evil-Norwegian-Literature/dp/1564785718 Despite the overuse of the word in movies, political speeches, and news reports, “evil” is generally seen as either flagrant rhetoric or else an outdated concept: a medieval holdover with no bearing on our complex everyday reality. In A Philosophy of Evil, however, acclaimed writer/philosopher Lars Svendsen argues that evil remains a concrete moral problem: that we’re all its victims, and all guilty of committing evil acts. “It’s normal to be evil,” he writes—the problem is, we’ve lost the vocabulary to talk about it. Taking up this problem—how do we speak about evil?—A Philosophy of Evil treats evil as an ordinary aspect of contemporary life, with implications that are moral, practical, and above all, political. Because, as Svendsen says, “Evil should neither be justified nor explained away—evil must be fought.”