Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moonlight chilliness of his mood, his refusal to soften the deepening ambiguities of truth (as he saw it), the pitiless obsession of his God-seeking, and the scary symbolism in which he embodied his God-seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite staying power will find that in the scope of the problem to which he dedicated himself, in the depth and integrity of his discernments and in the variety of means by which he dramatized his vision in terms of everyday life (thereby giving to everyday life new implications and new dimensions...
They made K. lie down against a rock. Then one of them drew out "a long, thin, double-edged butcher's knife, held it up and tested the cutting edge in the moonlight. . . . With a flicker as of a light going up, the casements of a window [in the house] suddenly flew open; a human figure, faint and insubstantial, at that distance and at that height, leaned abruptly far forward and stretched both arms still farther. Who was it? A friend? A good man? Someone who sympathized? Someone who wanted to help? . . . Was help at hand? . . . Where...
...Brickley reported after the examination yesterday that the 22-year old Gardiner had ice skates fastened to his feet. Lieutenant Edward L. Connally of the Lower Basin Division M.D.P., surmised that the third string football center and Varsity stroke oar had gone through an ice hole hidden from the moonlight in the shadow of a bridge farther up the river...
Twelve hours later Kelly was turned loose. The cops had checked up: he was just a Reed College student, a veteran of the Aleutians campaign and a man who likes to read Shelley by lamplight or moonlight...
Next night 20 Reed undergrads, each armed with a volume of poetry, gathered on a downtown Portland street corner by moonlight and solemnly read Shelley together. A police car passed; but no arrests were made...