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(noun) twilight; dusk

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gloaming



According to Judge William, the aesthete laughs the 'laughter of despair' and Kierkegaard speaks of the 'superior indolence that cares for nothing at all, that does not care to work [...], that disperses and exhausts all the powers of the soul in soft enjoyment, and lets consciousness itself evaporate into a loathsome gloaming'.

quoting Kierkegaard in either Either/Or (2, 205) or The Concept of Irony (295), not sure

—p.78 Endless Irony (60) by Allard Pieter den Dulk
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9 years, 3 months ago


The whole night he had been stuck in the gloaming where sleep kept threatening, but all he got were hallucinations.

—p.217 Part Two: God, What an Idiot He Was (165) by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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3 years, 5 months ago


the city was going through its October heat spell, and the hills were covered not with the usual thick, cold fog but with a gloaming haze

—p.28 by Claire Stanford
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2 years, 3 months ago


the kind of mauvish gloaming hour

—p.57 Contemporaries (57) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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6 years, 6 months ago


In any case here is Nelson squatting down in the gloaming contemplating his creation.

—p.160 MY EXPEDITION (129) by Norman Rush
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1 year ago

Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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Sonora Review DFW Tribute
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I remember us "huddled" in the gloaming going to gloom.

interesting alliteration, not sure if I feel it though

—p.51 Footnotes & Endnotes (51) by Michael Martone
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