Detalosi's New Writeupshttp://everything2.com/?node=New%20Writeups%20Atom%20Feed&foruser=Detalosi2011-08-03T09:10:15ZThe Dark is Beautiful (thing)http://everything2.com/user/Detalosi/writeups/The+Dark+is+BeautifulDetalosihttp://everything2.com/user/Detalosi2011-08-03T09:10:15Z2011-08-03T09:10:15Z<p>It is 1:28am, and I feel more awake than I did this morning at 8:30am. Although I have been doing nothing but reading <a href="/title/Everything2">E2</a> for the past hour, and am a bit hungry, I feel like I am being productive. With slow, light <a href="/title/dubstep">dubstep</a> playing in my headphones, and <a href="http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/">JDarkRoom</a> enticing me with it's dark-grey screen (damn laptop back-light), I am nowhere near ready to go to sleep.</p>
<p>You see, it is in the depths of night that my mind is the clearest, and that I experience true <a href="/title/fascination">fascination</a>. Even my experience of reading is different; during the day, reading is just that - reading. I interpret and digest information, and do so on a nearly subconscious level. During the night though... Things get interesting. Reading becomes more than a utility. No longer an act of entertainment, it becomes one of discovery. Curiosity takes over, and my mind lowers its daytime filters. At night, the things I read possess emotions, and personalities.</p>
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