Why is it that the time late at night feels so inviting, so productive…to sit and think and write and program? For all my computing years, that has always been where the zone hangs out fat and beckoning, with the promise of unlimited potential slowly giving way to the reality of fatigue and its diminishing returns.
I think it’s really about the quiet, the absence of interruption. When my family is asleep around me, time seems to progress at a different speed. The city’s noises drop back down, I am free to pursue my own thoughts.
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Danyell | 12-May-03 at 11:55 pm | Permalink
The night is the domain of the moon, weak yet strong as it is orbiting the earth, yet its own gravitation pull gives us tides — and unexpected bouts of longing, when it is full.
The cycle of human life, naturally favoring sleep, quiet and calm at night, doesn’t help only because of diminished distractions. It is also that time where we are more easily drawn to the ethereal.
To sum up, the sun is made of atoms; but the moon is made of bits.