Introversion leads to ecstasy in which "the mind is ravished into the abyss of divine Light" (Richard of Saint-Victor, The Four Grades of Violent Love).
The four stately, sublime albums he released under that moniker take German classical compositions and recontextualize them as extended drifts into the eternal abyss, voluminous washes of light and shade, dread and dreamtime.
It is pure activity but ultimately finds itself in the abyss of darkness, enveloping every light of self-consciousness.
But, you know, friendship is a beacon of light in the dark abyss of existence.
Simon is the unluckiest person in the UK office, because his beat is "whatever the far-right is mad about this time", "whatever stupid shit Tommy Robinson has said" and then the looming, shadowy abyss of "Brexit", with the occasional light relief of "Theresa May walking across a podium like the skeleton of a woman who died carrying some shopping was cursed by a wizard to dance".
These habitats differ from each other in depth (from intertidal to the abyss), temperature, light availability, and type of substratum (ranging from hard through soft, muddy bottoms).
Real happiness -- or perhaps real joy -- doesn't come easily, but is fought for tooth and nail, hanging onto the abyss of despair, and still reaching out for the tiniest bit of light that we hope for above us.
As Little Steven, pirate scarf tied across his head, eyes sparkling with the vigor of the truly alive, takes his verse, there's a slight roughness to the voice that cuts through one of Springsteen's prettiest melodies the way a lone street light dissolves the abyss of the night where it falls.
In the next phase, "Abyss," the audience leans over the edge of a structure and falls down a chamber of light.
His late, sublime "Water Lilies" is literally that: reflections of light, clouds and foliage against the surface of his pond at Giverny, Monet's erotic, mysterious, multicolored abyss of shimmering, indefinite space, which kind of describes memory itself.
