Questions:
How do you break out of conventional and cliched descriptions of phenomena? It has become automatic and worthless to use phrases like 'dusk descended', or 'night falls'.
Why is there this connection between night, or things of the night, and falling? Why do we rarely say moonrise, whilst sunrise is much more common? Why do we never say moonset when we regularly say sunset? We prioritise one above the other, such that it has become almost natural to view it in this manner.
I had a third one, but i forgot.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
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describe them as you visualize them! combine words if you have to. moonglow, nightfog, etc. it's probably got to do with the quaint english tradition of having fog fall over the land every time the sun sets.
and, uh, i think the sun is usually too bright when the moon sets to actually see the latter.
or go absurdist! "dusk approached and slapped the land in the face, with what appeared to be a fish in the shape of a moon."
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