In his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, the historian A Roger Ekirch details the ways in which nearly every known civilisation figured darkness as a source of evil: "Everywhere one looks in the ancient world, demons filled the night air," he writes.
Andrew Hudgins's poems are children's scenes as Schumann never knew: immediate and often fierce notations of suffering parental anger and hopelessness, of self-discovery as an illumination of darkness, of sex as worrying, unfathomable and urgent.
During production of the episode, the producers "agonized" over the teaser due to the fact that it featured the death of a small child as well as the darkness of the entire episode.
Examples have included a headline on a recent piece about Congo by John le Carré, a memoir of the days of segregation in the deep south, a suggestion bizarrely describing a cricket pitch in Antigua as "a heart of darkness", and Bolton Wanderers glimpsing a "heart of darkness" because some of their players were taking part in the Africa Cup of Nations.
Barbara Müller has pointed out that there is a rich tradition in monastic wisdom talking about hell as a place of darkness ("skotus") – a darkness that precludes the possibility of seeing other persons and seeing the glory of God [22].
In a room of the folically challenged, the hair stood out as a beacon of darkness in a sea of shining pates.
The five centuries from 1396 to 1878, known as the era of the "Turkish yoke," are traditionally seen as a period of darkness and suffering.
He had a particular aversion to the idea of Christians celebrating Hallowe'en which he saw as a festival of darkness.
It's imagined by westerners as a land of darkness, harsh winters, bears and exiles, and it's a home seldom coveted by foreigners.
But mostly Palmer stresses a view of the affable, melancholy master of the English Pastoralists as a prophet of darkness, a poet of the abyss during a century of staggering bloodshed.
