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Sun, moon, and stars are dark to me
Jan. 15th, 2009 07:07 amTime Period ???
What is a day? Twenty four hours, a rotation of the sun around the earth? What hubris it is for Man to put names on the endless movement of Time and the World!
The name "day" has lost all meaning; dark and light do not demarcate the boundaries of a new period - why should they? We have conquered the night with electricity, and my room is all blazing amid the dark of night.
I sleep when I am tired and wake when I am done sleeping; perhaps the sun will shine through my window, or perhaps the night will extend its fingers to my bed. What does it matter, as long as I can type and read and think?
Someday I will fix this; someday I will align myself with the norms of wakefulness and sleep; but that day is not today, nor will it be tomorrow or the day after.
What is a day? Twenty four hours, a rotation of the sun around the earth? What hubris it is for Man to put names on the endless movement of Time and the World!
The name "day" has lost all meaning; dark and light do not demarcate the boundaries of a new period - why should they? We have conquered the night with electricity, and my room is all blazing amid the dark of night.
I sleep when I am tired and wake when I am done sleeping; perhaps the sun will shine through my window, or perhaps the night will extend its fingers to my bed. What does it matter, as long as I can type and read and think?
Someday I will fix this; someday I will align myself with the norms of wakefulness and sleep; but that day is not today, nor will it be tomorrow or the day after.
