AtDDtA1: Epigraph

[Jasper Fidget]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> "It's always night or we wouldn't need light"
> 
> --THELONIOUS MONK (AtD, epigraph)
> 

The quote is immediately interesting because it's not literally true, 
it's not always night.  So one reaches for metaphors, especially in the 
context of the novel.  Light from a stick of dynamite?  Night the abused 
miners' world, "those poor souls who dwell in night" -- so it reminds me 
of the end of Blake's Auguries:

"Every night and every morn
Some to misery are born,
Every morn and every night
Some are born to sweet delight.
Some are born to sweet delight,
Some are born to endless night.
We are led to believe a lie
When we see not thro' the eye,
Which was born in a night to perish in a night,
When the soul slept in beams of light.
God appears, and God is light,
To those poor souls who dwell in night;
But does a human form display
To those who dwell in realms of day."

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