From the room, I watched city lights flicker far below and cannonballs of fog engulf the mountain, and remembered Kathy's photo.
So, I usually end up falling asleep in bed around midnight, with a bright screen flickering not far from my closed eyes and dribbling mouth.
At the summit – the orange lights of Estes Park, the Rockies' biggest town, flickering like candles far below – we traversed to an exposed pinnacle, set an anchor around a large boulder, and lowered ourselves into the abyss of night, walking backwards down the cliff to reach our hanging bed.
The flickering images were a far cry from Lourdes's childhood home: a two-room shack made of wooden slats, its flimsy tin roof weighted down with rocks, the only bathroom a clump of bushes outside.
Then Don Quixote (played by Brian Stokes Mitchell) and Sancho (Ernie Sabella) mount the newly created horse and donkey, their flickering shadows on the wall far more gallant than their actual appearance.
Amid enough dry ice and strobe action to last a superclub a whole year, lead vocalist Colette Thurlow is a flickering silhouette, while on the far side of the stage it's just about possible to make out her sister Hannah staring at the floor, completely lost in the fug of noise she's making.
"Doubt," for all its pretensions as an exploration of flickering faith and questionable morals, is far from nuanced drama.
Far below, the lights of Manarola are flickering on.
The sense of solidarity with victims in far-off, alien places is a fragile, flickering thing.
Far away, points of light in a town, flickering coldly at the horizon.
