One the sleeve of Princes second album Prince
On the sleeve of Prince's second album Prince. God

This lovely line is from Charles Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle: "A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle; I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other." If only Darwin had lived long enough (just a little under a hundred years) to see the spectacle I saw on the sleeve of an album in a DC record store. It was the image of a beautiful man on a winged horse. He was naked, brown, and so otherworldly. And I did something that day that I had never done before: I bought a record. It was made by the blurry brown man on the white horse. He was very young. He would live for another 37 years.