What the day brings on and makes recognizable gradually, emerges out of the dark with no intermediary stages. There is no longer a distinction between the lifeless and the living, everything is animate and soulless, vigilant and asleep at once. There is a strangeness about what is intimate and dear, and a seductive charm about the frightening. Our feelings too are peculiarly ambiguous. There are whispers and sounds, and we do not know where or what they are. Nighness vanishes, and with it distance everything is equally far and near, close by us and yet mysteriously remote. “A man who is awake in the open field at night or who wanders over silent paths experiences the world differently than by day.
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