I’ve been thinking about darkness. Literally, I mean; as anyone who reads my books will know, I think quite a lot about figurative darkness but this time I mean the real thing: the way it looks when our part of the world turns away from the sun, and how differently we experience night in town and country.
I was in the south of France when the hour went back. This situation gave me a double time-shift: one hour lost in space, another three days later in time, and only one of them returned in flight at the end of the week.
I was staying in the countryside, far from street-lights.
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