26 days from today is Halloween!
Come on, sir. Here’s the place. Stand still. How fearful and dizzy ’tis to cast one’s eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air show scarce so gross as beetles.
EDGAR (Act 4, scene 6, King Lear by Shakespeare)
Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness.
WWW:WAKE by Robert Sawyer