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

[alice wellintown]

Uncle Reeem-US, he be tellin us all the time bout some nose grinding down
on Maggie's old man's farm, and he be talkin bout the cockroach peoples
peoples peoples, that Jimmy talk about, but me I'm juss wishin I wuz still
an Invisible Man, all my light bulbs burning on the juice Ize jacked from
Metropolitan, but most of all, I wish the Po Jamma People would get some
sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolt_of_the_Cockroach_People

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMolw4fw54U&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUMolw4fw54U


On Saturday, September 7, 2013, Kai Frederik Lorentzen wrote:

>
> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----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
>>
>>
>>   > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06.09.2013 04:10, David Morris wrote:
>> > Oops  "Send"
>> >
>> > Lights in the City are required for survival.  Crime and cockroaches
>> > like dark in the City.
>> >
>> > On Thursday, September 5, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     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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