But every year, before it gets to be really springtime in these parts, fans of the back-and-forth sports (as Red Smith called them) realize that hope was illusive, that they are in the grips of perpetual darkness, as manifested in the Dolan touch.
In this heresy, named after a third-century Iranian known as Mani or Manes, the universe is in the grip of an uncontrollable darkness and evil which must be fought so that fragments of good or light might rise to heaven, and the world come to its merciful end.
Were it to be otherwise, the forces of darkness that took hold will have cemented their grip, and no president will ever be able to undo their damage again.
Yet, although he wrote more than 30 books, Koestler is today known primarily, perhaps exclusively, as the author of "Darkness at Noon," his gripping short novel of Stalinist coercion.
These wise words from lawyer and Sikh activist Valarie Kaur help me to shift my perspective when I feel the grip of fear taking over, "What if this darkness is not the darkness of the tomb--but the darkness of the womb?" When you're in the middle of a dark tunnel, the best choice you can make is to find the light and run toward it!
Because of Mr. Tesich's grand ambition, which, more often than not, is sustained by a gripping story and passages of stunning writing, "The Speed of Darkness" is not just another obscure Broadway failure.
I feel like some pathetic first-world version of Kurtz, gone upriver in Heart of Darkness, or the demented Japanese soldiers who infest Shinya Tsukamoto's gripping Fires on the Plain.
When I arrived it was January, and the days were gripped by darkness, 20 hours at a time.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
"Three months of darkness".
