“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and I can think while others are sleeping, in a way that can stop time, I can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make shoes while the children sleep.”
~Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
There are some people who are creatures of the night. I am one of those people. For me, amazing things happen between the hours of 10 pm and 4 am. It’s when the muses speak. It’s when the ideas finally come. It’s when the night gives up its secrets.
And tonight, as I’m heading for 52nd street, the dance has already begun.
After midnight, heading for 52nd st
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