The two- or three-day visit became three weeks of tramping the countryside, nightlong talk about a new world and the poetry that was to shape it, and long sessions of feverish writing at a common table.
The French Antillean Creole term zouk was first used on the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique to refer to nightlong dance parties.
He can't hearthe nightlong voicerecant in the bell tower,or the wasp's torn wingslifting hints of lightin the spider's web.
As Ivan later told me in a letter, he had only one answer — one — to give them throughout their dogged nightlong inquisition about why I was hanging around the city every spring.
When the news of his death finally came, it inspired a nightlong burst of triumphal celebration at Ground Zero, in Lafayette Park, and elsewhere.
Mr. Perry and Mr. Romney, whose lecterns were positioned side by side, quickly turned their answers into a nightlong match of one-upmanship.
The performance was part of a nightlong party to celebrate the nearly $1.2 million she has raised for her new album on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, with 24,883 fans making contributions ranging from $1 to download the album to $10,000 for a private dinner.
In the following days and weeks, Dick experienced and indeed enjoyed a couple of nightlong psychedelic visions with phantasmagoric visual light shows.
This group, made up mostly of University of Iowa alums, works in nightlong spurts, carving totemic wooden structures with power tools.
As the nightlong performance drew to a close, over at St. Paul's Cathedral a different kind of theater was starting the second week of its continuous run.
She cited as an example the D.J. Jackie Sugarlumps, who last week played a nightlong set of '70s power pop at the Make-Out Room, a hangout that serves thimble-size drinks under red mood lighting, wearing a black M.C.
