Monk's motto or: Is Against the Day in favour of the Night?

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Kai Frederik Lorentzen 
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> If there's "always night", where would be the need to do anything "Against
> the Day"?
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although some literature is primarily a call to action,
I think OBA is more of a "hold the mirror up to nature"
kinda commentator.


it's always night, like, what occurs, occurs in the fertile void?

Good questions.  

something pretty satisfying in the way
of my take on them flitted through my head just now, like
an electron in a cloud-chamber, leaving no words behind...
(pretty lame, hunh? but it did, tying together the art-house
take on "Against the Day", the picture of Constance Penhallow,
a possible reason for the permutations of genre fiction, the 
reference to Ain Soph Aur implied in the Monk quote,
the concept of fields, iceland spar as a metaphor for fiction, 
and a couple other connections that I can't remember.)
John Carvill had some interesting meta-questions like that
when he did his host turn (as did others, of course)
which I've earmarked because the same thing happened 
to me back then.