The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

It's  the close linkage of parasites and human activity - that 
alliteration of "cockroaches" and "crime" - which sounds like zero 
tolerance rhetorics to me.

On 07.09.2013 00:42, malignd at aol.com wrote:
> How do you get that from his saying crime occurs more often at night?
>
>     I mean, are
>     you really in agreement with zero tolerance urban policy kicking out
>     junkies, sex workers and the homeless?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
> To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Cc: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>; Jill Adams <grladams at teleport.com>
> Sent: Fri, Sep 6, 2013 6:55 am
> Subject: Re: The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an 
> Age of Artificial Light
>
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>   > Crime and cockroaches like dark in the City. <
>
> At least you didn't write "criminals and cockroaches" ... I mean, are
> you really in agreement with zero tolerance urban policy kicking out
> junkies, sex workers and the homeless?
>
> No offense intended.
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>
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> On 06.09.2013 04:10, David Morris wrote:
> > Oops  "Send"
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> > Lights in the City are required for survival.  Crime and cockroaches
> > like dark in the City.
> >
> > On Thursday, September 5, 2013, David Morris wrote:
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> >
> >     On Thursday, September 5, 2013, Joseph Tracy wrote:
> >
> >         I live in Vermont about 500 yards from the nearest steetlamp
> >         and maybe twice that from the highway that passes through
> >         town.  Having lived in many rural places I treasure the
> >         unimpeded starlight and the blackness of an overcast evening.
> >         The only noise is the small volume of traffic on our road and
> >         the creek across the street.   A few of us have helped prevent
> >         more lights from going up in town and argued to reduce what we
> >         have or get lamps that are efficient and direct the light
> >         down.  When one flies the sheer volume of energy being used on
> >         excessive light is disturbing even though the patterns are
> >         visually entrancing.
> >
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