ATDTDA (17): "the first day of the world" (478.20)

[Tim Strzechowski]

"Lake arrived in the middle of these reflections with a couple armloads of laundry full of sunlight and smelling like the first day of the world ..." (p. 478)

 
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 


3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 


5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. [...]

http://www.blueletterbible.org/Gen/Gen001.html



Appropriately, this harkens back to the uses of "light" used throughout the earlier portions of the novel as well.