His captors put him in a lightless room.
And then there's Blackie, the drunken boxer of "The Lightless Room" -- a 1939 story, published for the first time in "Entrapment" -- that Dafoe animates with a perfect Irish brogue.
I never could have hauled massive slabs of wood up to my old fifth-floor walk-up never could have painted them in the lightless room I once shared walk-up neverommates.
They went on, and down, into more heat and darkness, until they came to the last circle of this little hell: in a near-lightless room, a dull-eyed boy was shovelling coal into a kiln.'How long do you work?' asked the economist.'Ten hours a day, six days a week,' he replied.'How old are you?"Sixteen .And how long have you been working here?"Nine years.'The boy was uneducated.
Like the denizens of the old West Village trucks, piers, bathhouses, and bars, Catherine M. is addicted to the rush of novelty and controlled menace, to the thrill of sodomy in public places with faceless thugs, and to lightless back rooms full of ambiguous moans where the sudden flare of a match illuminates a grimace.
Originally designed as a single residence, it had become a decrepit communal space occupied by eight families in a row of small rooms along a lightless corridor.
The rooms resemble catacombs; lightless and fetid and crammed with dozens, even hundreds, of bodies, each one clinging to his bit of space, his bit of elixir.
The performers, who are positioned in the corners of the room, seem to map the space with tones, like bats using echolocation to navigate a lightless cave.
The stairwells were lightless.
(III.41-3) Lightless, Milton must delineate the celestial.
