"I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing, digestion, the rhythms of sexual intercourse. We must not forget that the lizard and the snake are identified with the unconscious, with the forces of evil. There's something deep in the human memory that reacts very strongly to reptiles. Even if you've never seen one, the snake embodies everything we fear." - Jim Morrison

It is, I have to admit, terribly clichéd...in a teenage angst meets biker babe kind of way...to admit to even a minor longing for a snake ring. Even if the ring in question is 18-karat gold-plated...bestowed with a certain artsy cachet (having been designed by French jewelry designer...and former art historian...Aurélie Bidermann)...and the sort of mammoth finger adornment that does double duty as a worry bead stand-in during times of stress...