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... an in te rg e n e ra tio n a l co m m u n a l m em o ry. For exam ple, in th e ch ild h o o d m e m o ry o f his fa m ily's routine Sunday afternoon gatherings, the narrator as an attuned child tropes Harlem as a place o f darkness, against w hich w in d o w s again serve as a protective b o u nd ­ ary...

...), and he derides non-Jews for their lack of understanding due to their ignorance of the Jewish esoteric tradition. In ha-Levi’s words: One will come to perceive, through the opening of the portals of this wisdom, that he shall go forth from darkness to light, and that before he was like one who was blind...

.... To return: Do you ever just feel like killing someone? Dexter Morgan sure does.The epony­ m ous protagonist of the Showtim e television series, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) carries a socalled "Dark Passenger" who is no passenger at all, but a drive to kill, vigilante-style, bad people in and around the city...

... aloud by the light of a single candle to a close circle of friends and family at Christmastime. The num er­ ous subsequent editions of this m odest collection only eight stories in all testify heartily to the continued popularity of the au th o r s dark b u t deliciously inviting vision...

... a world which, if pardy recognizable to the reader, is one of strange, and new, negotiations for its occupants. Both novels thematically recall concerns prom inent in Heart of Darkness. Lord of the Flies, published a year earlier, explores what happens (or might hap­ pen) to human behavior and actions...

... ajor works, Heart of Darkness and LordJim. At the same time, there has long been a tradition in English literature of sympathetic identification with what one may, for 72 English Language Notes lack of a better term, call the non-European or oriental Other, that has covered, in fact, the three main...

... exists, if exits he does, at the yeares m idnight, and . . . the dayes ; n o r will his Sunne renew, n o r will he have a next w orld, that is, a next spring. Hence, the seemingly trium phant darkness in the m acrocosm th at obtains at St. Lucy s day offers a proper, if inad­ equate, em blem...

... of Darkness , the work that Hollow Sea references more than any of his others. 8 That such references occur in a novel about intercepted passage that problematizes orientation would seem to align it with Conrad’s modernism and the literary genealogy described above. But in Hanley’s novel, what disrupts...

... of the Miwok itself is initially described using the same word (line 3), since there is as yet no sun. This root is also the source of the verb “transform oneself” ( luţiisypoksu -) used to describe Coyote’s actions (lines 20, 32). In transforming himself, Coyote also transforms the formerly dark Miwok world...

... a dozen scie n tific papers on lig h t. His research on lig h t's p ro p ­ erties and behavior was o f a piece w ith his experim ents on photogenic draw ing, ye t in both his private and public w riting,T albot emphasizes the im portance o f darkness to the m edium as m uch as he does lig h t. In "S o m e...

... 195 page in a com ic book in 2008 (Dark Horse publications such as Hellboy and Conan are notable exceptions to this) and the phenomenon of the letters column appears to belong to a past age predating Internet forums. The Web is now the place where comics readers tend to voice their opinions...

... a constituent of the divine body. Verse 74 reads: “And it is written (Psalm 18:12), ‘He made darkness His hiding place round about, His Succah, the darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.’” “He said: ‘Regarding this it is written (Isaiah 45:8), The skies (Shechakim) pour down righteousness...

... but, more generally, the dark generative source of the changing lights. The ascent of prayer through the Heikhalot continues on to the seventh hall, which, unlike all the preceding lower halls, “contains no actual image; all is in concealment.” 28 The seventh hall, the Holy of Holies, is associated...

... 48, like Lightning the shocking knowledge has flashed (292) upon him, dispelling the mysterious shadow that has hung about Estella. Thus, in Chapter 32 the word shadow is both obscur­ ing darkness, dim recognition, and premonition of a truth to be revealed later. Since in dining with Jaggers...

...: THOMAS S AFTER THE FUNERAL AND THE PARADOX OF THE LIAR W hatever is h id d e n should be m ade naked. To be stripped o f darkness is to be clean, to strip o f darkness is to m ake clean. Poetry, reco rd in g th e strip­ ping of the individual darkness, must, inevitably, cast light u pon w hat has been...

... a darkness (the material world) that blocks access to the divine light: vi una çiega çeguedumre armada contra la lunbre que privaba nuestro ver. He is worried the darkness will pull him from the light, when luckily his reason intervenes: Mas antes, sin dilaçion, la razon bien conoçida sigue una...

... them as OED indicates) / so although Shakespeare himself did not actual­ ly employ this word in print, he should easily have intuited its sig­ nificance historically in this case. Yet the overall m eaning of dark in such a context (that is, n o t being ignorant) is essentially and politically...

... that in Batman #614, "Starting in panel 1 and throughout the issue, I had a great tim e inking in my own background graffiti. As a tip o f the hat to all the incredible talents w ho preceded Jeph's and my run on the Dark Knight, I just started dropping in random creators' names onto the wall behind Batman...

... it tells you the less you know. -D iane Arbus An artificial eye propelled the sta rt Alhazen saw the sun inside closed room s through pinhole prick, an aura lit to chart the orb in shadow , lustrous as a m oon. S oon Kepler and Vermeer advanced the phase as "cham bers dark" distilled desired fates...

..., existential dread, and perhaps religious doubt: O ne dark night, my T udor F ord clim bed th e h ill s skull; I w atched for love-cars. Lights tu rn ed down, they lay together, hull to hull, w here the graveyard shelves on the town. . . . My m in d s n o t right. A car radio bleats, Love, careless Love...