Atdtda22: [42.2ii] The empty suburban lamplight, 614

[Monte Davis]

These are *very* illuminating citations, Paul, another reminder that the
book's title (and the Thelonious Monk epigraph) never stop radiating
throughout.

In AtD, thematic work is being done almost every time there's a
juxtaposition of city/light (and modernity? I think yes) and other kinds of
lighting, whether it's the Home Counties or Colorado:

"The railroad towns, Durango, Grand Junction, Montrose, and them, were
pretty stodgy by comparison, what Webb mostly remembered being the sunlight.
Telluride was in the nature of an outing to a depraved amusement resort,
whose electric lighting at night in its extreme and unmerciful whiteness
produced a dream-silvered rogues' district..." (89)


Or the Adriatic:

"Here in this ancient town progressively settling into a mask of itself, she
began to look for episodes of counter-light... Hunter argued that this was
why so many people had come to love Venice, because of its 'chiaroscuro.' "
(582)

" 'All these islands will be linked by motorways. Electricity everywhere,
anyone who still wants Venetian moonlight will have to visit a museum.' "
(585)