Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.
(And now more birds dead in Sweden?) Probably not the sign of end times, but a few more of these announcements and we'll be inching nearer to a Cormac McCarthy doomscape, with: Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.
"Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before," the novel begins.
In a roundup of Holocaust literature in Commentary in 1964, the critic A. Alvarez said "Night" was "beyond criticism" as a "human document," but called it "a failure as a work of art".
The atmosphere is that of the child's nightmare, transposed into the winter night beyond the hotel's walls.
The beige carpets, the curtainless windows, the dark night beyond, the bright blinking TV where the horror was taking place and me alone in front of it, transfixed.
The Jedi master of radio's polemical universe, Mr. Limbaugh clearly is not letting Mr. Clinton go gentle into that good night beyond all talk, all the time.
Mr. Gaspin, who said he would also like to find several new comedies to give himself a chance to open a second night (beyond Thursdays) for the genre, professed to be "cautiously optimistic" about NBC's development slate.
And then, though it no longer mattered and he was already passing by the bouncer and swinging open the door to the deepening night beyond, I added, my own voice pinched in complaint, "I don't even know him".
Elephant guns have given way to telephoto lenses, but the essentials remain: dawn and dusk game drives, stately canvas tents guarded by warriors with spears, and drinks around the campfire, with the mawing and bellowing of animals in the liquid black night beyond.
