As I sat in the Sacred Mosque, reconstructed to resemble an underground station complete with escalators, the entire area was bathed in night-banishing light".
Both hail the darkness, which banishes the light of everyday reality and false appearances.
There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light". In our political system and in the media we often see the reflection of a country that is polarized, that is paralyzed and is self-interested.
"There has to be some way that this darkness can be banished with light," says the man whose little boy was massacred on just an ordinary Friday in December.
If the night owl was to walk 10 minutes away from Leidseplein, to banish the bright lights to the rear view mirror, they would be greeted with canals and beautiful houses.
He joined his middle school lacrosse team and last month when he learned that so many victims of the Boston Marathon bombing would become new amputees, Michael decided to banish that darkness with light.
At Christmas time, we let in light and banish shade.
And yet: The early 20th-century Japanese writer Junichiro Tanizaki, in his tract on aesthetics, ''In Praise of Shadows,'' noted of soy sauce, ''how rich in shadows is the viscous sheen of the liquid, how beautifully it blends with the darkness.'' Westerners, he argued, were too quick to banish darkness with bright lights.
I hope those very brave, very few people around the table in Beijing on 10 May, Xu Youyu among them, will bring it about that these prognostications are wrong; that they will keep alight the torch of democratic liberty lit in Tiananmen Square, and that its light will eventually banish the thick dark clouds that roll perpetually out of Zhong Nan Hai.
Their views are nominally abstract: tinted atmospheres that show darkness being banished by the light, which also brightens portions of the frame.
