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No matter how comfortable and enjoyable travel may be, it still carries an inexplicable seed of anxiety. I have tried all kinds of journeys, from the most primitive and heavy caravan walks to the most elaborate express and fanciful ferry trips, and I have heard that the same hidden pain bites me in all of them.
Evening is the most acute emotional hour of the journey.
Where does this effect of darkness on the passenger come from?
From far away, from the memories of humanity's first animal nights.
Night is the time of fear. Since the eye can no longer do its job, it begins to see wrong things. Every shadow play, every trembling of grass, every leaf stir feel like an enemy. In these dark, nerve-racking hours, many animals have nothing to do but gather, perch, or retreat to their den and lie down. Despite the discovery of electricity, civilized poetry, like wild poetry, still speaks of the sadness of the beginning of the night and the disaster caused by the darkness.
08.12.2022
