Darkness
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Tiny particles swirl down through the
darkness
while flashes of bioluminescence give us a clue that these waters teem with life: microbes, plankton, fish.
I had closed all the curtains in the apartment, so in the middle of the day the apartment was in near total
darkness.
Often the roofs are broken, so you don't have enough
darkness
in the classroom to do these things.
I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me in the darkness, but I can't see much else.
Standing in the near darkness, I remember feeling this quick, hot fear, and in that instant, I could only imagine what it must be like to be trapped in that hell.
And there I was, lying there in this tiny space, hot, dark, claustrophobic, matchbox-sized, behind my eyes, but it was really weird, like, after this went on for days, weeks, months, that space would get bigger and darker and cooler until I really looked forward to that half an hour of enforced immobility and rest, and I really looked forward to going to that place of
darkness.
Here we are, in a space, the subjective, collective space of the
darkness
of the body.
The elemental world that we all live in is that space that we all visited together, the
darkness
of the body.
It's called "Learning To See" because it's about an object that hopefully works reflexively and talks about that vision or connection with the
darkness
of the body that I see as a space of potential.
Again, the
darkness
of the body, now held within this bunker shape of the minimum position that a body needs to occupy, a crouching body.
Taking that idiom of, as it were, the
darkness
of the body transferred to architecture, can you use architectural space not for living but as a metaphor, and use its systolic, diastolic smaller and larger spaces to provide a kind of firsthand somatic narrative for a journey through space, light and
darkness?
We can use the cold
darkness
of space to improve the efficiency of every energy-related process here on earth.
Could we generate light from
darkness?
This ability, coupled with the cold
darkness
of space, points us to a future where we, as a civilization, might be able to more intelligently manage our thermal energy footprint at the very largest scales.
Local humanitarians are the beacons of light in the
darkness
of war.
There's a beautiful quote by the Romantic German composer Robert Schumann, who said, "To send light into the
darkness
of men's hearts, such is the duty of the artist."
We make our way through the
darkness
to get to the light at the end.
This brings me one step closer into the darkness, and then I promise we will find our way into the light.
And this enables them to orient in complete
darkness.
Indeed, the very famous philosopher Thomas Nagel once said, "To truly experience an alien life form on this planet, you should lock yourself inside a room with a flying, echolocating bat in complete darkness."
In 2004, I had a little baby boy, and I call him my miracle child, because after seeing so much death and destruction and chaos and
darkness
in my life, this ray of hope was born.
You want to be like, "Oh, dude, we had to get up in the middle of the night and drive a hundred miles in total darkness."
But as I searched around in the darkness, I realized I was actually paralyzed by all of the choices that I never had before.
The perpetrators aren't these monsters who crawl out of the swamp and come into town and do their nasty business and then retreat into the
darkness.
So think of it like this: For most of your life, you live out your existence here in the middle of the chain of human experience where everything is normal and reassuring and regular, but failure catapults you abruptly way out over here into the blinding
darkness
of disappointment.
Here's another problem: we've conquered darkness, but in the process, we spill so much extra light out into the night that it disrupts the lives of other creatures, and fireflies are especially sensitive to light pollution because it obscures the signals that they use to find their mates.
You might not notice when the first few flames flicker out, but in the end, you're left sitting in
darkness.
I spent a couple years finishing graduate school, and the whole entire time while I'm sitting there in buildings at Oxford that were literally built hundreds of years before the United States was even founded, and I'm sitting there talking to dons about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and how that influenced the start of World War I, where the entire time my heart and my head were on my soldiers who were now throwing on Kevlars and grabbing their flak vests and figuring out how exactly do I change around or how exactly do I clean a machine gun in the
darkness.
In the darkness, some lost their handhold or their footing and they fell to their deaths in the ravine below.
And at a time when most of us here were preparing to welcome the new year, India plunged into
darkness.
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