A Hand writing by Amīn Al-Rīḥānī, it says, from top to bottom (right to left): From Amīn Al-Rīḥānī, in the spring of Angst. Desperation, as any other human feeling, is diverse and vast in different people. A peasant for instance might feel desperate because of a dry weather that destroyed his crops, or because of a disease that killed his livestock. A philosopher (meaning wise man here) might get desperate because of some theory he is struggling to prove in order to eradicate that disease, or trying to create a machine that allows him to control the weather and rain. That been said, A poet's Angst is different from that of a Grocer, and that goes true also for criminals and prophets. All who are at the top feel Angst, and all those who are at the bottom.