When All The Lights Are on, People Tend To talk About What They Are Doing

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โ€œI have noticed that when all the lights are on, people tend to talk about what they are doing โ€“ their outer lives. Sitting round in candlelight or firelight, people start to talk about how they are feeling โ€“ their inner lives. They speak subjectively, they argue less, there are longer pauses. To sit alone without any electric light is curiously creative. I have my best ideas at dawn or at nightfall, but not if I switch on the lights โ€“ then I start thinking about projects, deadlines, demands, and the shadows and shapes of the house become objects, not suggestions, things that need to done, not a background to thought.โ€

โ€• Why I Adore the Night (Jeanette Winterson)

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