AtDDtA1: The Falling Darkness

[David Casseres]

On 1/24/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "The duo appeared to be making for a nearby patch of woods, now and
> then casting apprehensive looks upward at the enormous gasbag of the
> descending Inconvenience, quite as if it were some giant eyeball,
> perhaps that of Society itself, ever scrutinizing from above, in a
> spirit of constructive censure. But by the time Lindsay could remove
> the optical instrument from the moist hands of Miles Blundell [...]
> the indecorous couple had vanished among the foliage, as presently
> would this sector of the Republic into the falling darkness." (AtD,
> Pt. I, Ch. 2, p. 13)


I'd say that last clause is something of a concealed weapon casually
revealed.  Made the back of my neck prickle.  On its face it just means it's
getting dark, but the way it's written, and the way it's dropped on the
ground like a glove or a rose or a letter, give it a more sinister weight.
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