strange things that inspire my passionate adoration, literary or otherwise

• lighting fixtures, their aesthetics and the symbolism associated with them
• works centred around chess pieces, playing cards, the periodic table, countries, sets of items with a range of unique qualities
• windows, the various types and how designers take liberties with form while maintaining function
• codes, riddles and other ways of encrypting a message such that it is not immediately apparent
• symbolism when well-done
• certain words: "alimony", "remora", "aluminium", "promenade", mostly alveolar and postalveolar consonants
• birds