Comments on: Night unto night

By: Lye Tuck-Po

Lye Tuck-Po — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:48:42 +0000

I'm tired and I've run out of things to say, so I give listening a try. . Excellent. I wish more people would do it.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:03:28 +0000

Leslee – It’s always a comfort to learn that my friends are as delusional as I am! (Or as in-touch with the spirit world, maybe? Nah.)

By: leslee

leslee — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:35:11 +0000

I turn my air cleaner up full blast at night for white noise while I’m trying to sleep (first did it to drown out the snoring of the guy who lives next door, but it helps with occasional housemate noise, too). Anyway, I used to think it trapped whatever noise that was around before I turned it on, which sounds crazy but I’d hear the TV even though I’d turned it off, or think someone was leaving a long message on my answering machine. Voices. Or I’d hear my dogs (when I had them) fussing in the kitchen where they were shut in for the night. I’d even get up to check on them and they’d be sleeping. Very weird. I haven’t really noticed it in awhile, but probably I just haven’t paid attention.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:54:01 +0000

quiet reader – I plan to install a Bible on my nightstand sometime today.
Whoa. O.K.!

Peter – I’m always drowning it out with my own. Oh, you believers! But that’s the way most of us are in relationships with flesh-and-blood others, too, isn’t it? I’m not sure there’s that big a difference, really.

Larry – Thanks. I’m trying to remember to try b&w more often.

By: Larry Ayers

Larry Ayers — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:35:27 +0000

Very well-written musings, and the photo caught the mood. That photo and the one of snowflakes before trees some time back belong in a portfolio of Evocative Black-and-White Shots Sans Humans.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 02:51:32 +0000

The comment string of the true believers, Dave! We’re all in here whispering.

I must believe in the white noise: I’m always drowning it out with my own.

By: quiet regular

quiet regular — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:31:41 +0000

great comments everybody, and thank-you Dave for coaxing them out…i really really really don’t have anything profound to add. I plan to install a Bible on my nightstand sometime today.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 03:58:46 +0000

Alison – I wish I had something really profound to add
I think you just did. I mean, it’s far from trivial to think about blackness/darkness in new and positive ways, and to conjure presence out of apparent absence. What could in turn lead to a new way of conceptualizing angels and such.

By: Alison

Alison — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 02:04:13 +0000

Hi Dave – I really liked this bit. I wish I had something really profound to add about the angels in which we all love to not believe in, but still believe in – but anyway, your piece makes me think about pitch blackness – absence of sound/absence of light – how sometimes when walking through it, it feels thick and full almost as if it needs to be parted to pass through it, and other times it feels quite light and empty and almost crisp.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 22:38:59 +0000

robin andrea – That sounds plausible (and very Whitmanesque!). But I think there’s value in treating the source as an Other, too.

Teju – Nice association. I am also quite fond of this kind of twinning, as I guess you know.