Simply..afraid of the dark?

6/11/2014

Are you afraid of the dark?

Or do you find it attractive, or comforting?

I'm exploring the dark, inspired by Tanizaki's book In Praise of Shadows (see posts here, and here).

As a lover of light and colour, and a fan of all things white, I'm finding it somewhat disturbing and unsettling...but Tanizaki does say some beautiful things about darkness -

I wonder if my readers know the colour of that 'darkness seen by candlelight'. It was different in quality from darkness on the road at night. It was a repletion, a pregnancy of tiny particles like fine ashes, each particle as luminous as a rainbow.

I am looking anew at the (few) dark things I have around my home....

2 Comments

cath

7/11/2014 01:00:55 am

As a child I thought the dark beautiful, especially in cold, clear nights, so many stars. It made me feel a tiny connected speck in the universe and that was such a good feeling. Over the years my experience of the dark has changed colour often but not into fear.
Can't help myself, the reading pile looks interesting too..., still enjoying John Burnside's The Hoop myself.

Freda

7/11/2014 05:57:43 am

I still feel like that about the stars and it still feels so good. I'm reading Tove Jansson's The Sculptor's Daughter. Delightful. I shall look up John Burnside's work..

Simply..afraid of the dark?

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