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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote in [personal profile] alex_beecroft 2011-12-13 04:43 pm (UTC)

What beautiful images.

I've struggled with the problem of light in historical writing--how, unless there was a full moon and a clear sky, night travel was incredibly dangerous if not impossible; how very dark the stairs and corridors would be in a house at night; how much people's lives were governed by night and day.

I don't think it's possible to overestimate the importance of this "detail" in any historical writing set before Thomas Edison did his thing.

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