When I awoke sometime later, the lamp had gone out, the elephants had moved on.
Nearby, a woman with a pile of Proust scrunched her eyes at us as though the garret lamp had gone dim.
Across the state, the lights went on on Wednesday for the first time for tens of thousands of Floridians who have been sweltering without air conditioning during the day and making do with candles and flashlights and portable lamps after the sun has gone down.
In a BBC documentary, the former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing revealed that he had contacted the royal household in advance of the Ceaușescus' arrival, warning that, when they came to Paris, lamps, vases, and other expensive fittings had gone missing from the rooms.
But by the time Tiffany died in 1933, his design studio had gone bust, and his lamps were passé.
Sure, plenty of young moderns have gone in for the conspicuously gas-lamp names "Ruby" and "Cyrus," but I don't know any mining the New Deal.
The light produced by the tungsten lamp has a wide wavelength spectrum that goes from ultraviolet to far infrared.
(The lamp has since been removed).
Without a light, a lamp has no purpose.
Jorge Galleguillos remembered another time when his lamp had stopped working.
