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Calling all lighting technicians!
I'm having trouble with something I'm writing, and the words that shed some light on the subject are what I would like to gather up.
incandescent = brightly shining
Then the more poetic from Emily, "There is a certain slant of light..." (which some critic I read from a former lifetime said Emily'd reconstructed from WS's "There is a willow grows aslant a brook... -- critics are creative, huh?)
Question: Will you please help me take a look at the light v. dark words and phrases, famous ones very much appreciated.
In the dark, DubDub
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My Dear--I can think of a few: the cold light of day; the clear light of day; dappled light; heart of darkness. But if you click on the link below, you'll find a whole list of phrase-finding sites--way more than I wanted to go through. I tried the link--it works, though I was afraid it wouldn't, it was so long. If it makes the screen go wide, I can PM it to you, or--just Google "phrase finder". http://www.google.com/custom?q=phrase+finder&sa=Go&cof=T:black;LW:282;L:http:// www.refdesk.com/rd.gif;LH:94;BGC:white;AH:center; AWFID:6332576430c078b2;EDITED NOTE It did make the screen go wide. I went back, picked a couple of spots in the address and hit Enter, and voila--a narrow screen again--and the link still works.
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Not the kind of light you are looking for, but I remember in Dante's Inferno he mentioned "the pale blue light that served only to make the darkness visible." "How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.". ..
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Sine tenebris lux nulla
-- Davus Scopulus
Roughly translated as "Without darkness there would be no light."
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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." --Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"It was a dark and stormy night.... Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraith-like shadows that raced along the ground." --Madeleine L'Engle
"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!" --Snoopy
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About Flatlander's post:
chiaro = light, or clear, and scuro = dark. Therefore, chiaroscuro = lightdark.
Also fumare is to smoke, and the s- prefix means something like "to make _____" so sfumato will mean "made smoky". Kind of. Actually, Italian words which start with the s- prefix are so much more compact than whatever they might be translated as in English. I'm rather fond of them.
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"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness." --Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"It was a dark and stormy night.... Behind the trees clouds scudded frantically across the sky. Every few moments the moon ripped through them, creating wraith-like shadows that raced along the ground." --Madeleine L'Engle
"It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon!" --Snoopy
"It was a dark and stormy night on the Thames Embankment, and there I stood in my thrice-turned paper overcoat, with my toes sticking out of my feet!" - Sir Harry Secombe aka Neddy Seagoon
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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critics are creative, huh?
"A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased--he hates all creative people equally." --Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love
(I won't edit a quote, but critics aren't, of course, exclusive to gender)
Let there be Light
"Tonight's forecast...dark...with darkness increasing and then continuing until morning." --George Carlin's The Hippy Dippy Weather Man
"Dark night that from the eye his function takes, The ear more quick of apprehension makes, Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, It pays the hearing double recompense." --Shakespeare
"It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightengale. Look love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East; Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tip-toe on the misty mountaintops." --Shakespeare
"Ethereal, first of things, quintessence, pure."--Milton
"Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.--Carlysle
"Night whose sable hand Hangs on the purple skirts of flying day." --Dyer
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light." --Dylan Thomas
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Oh my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned By sicknesse, deaths herald, and champion; Thou art like a pilgrim, which abroad hath done Treason, and durst not turne to whence hee is fled, Or like a thiefe, which till deaths doome be read, Wisheth himselfe delivered from prison; But damn'd and hal'd to execution, Wisheth that still he might be imprisoned. Yet grace, if thou repent, thou canst not lacke; But who shall give thee that grace to beginne? Oh make thy selfe with holy mourning blacke, And red with blushing, as thou art with sinne; Or wash thee in Christs blood, which hath this might That being red, it dyes red soules to white.
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