The Night After (198 hits)
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Submitted by RenTheUnsightly (View user info) at 2007-02-14 02:30:03 EST
I leave work at my usual time, half an hour before everyone else, welcoming the fall chill as I bust out of the main building doors. To reach the big street where I take a left in order to reach the T-platform, I have to walk through streets used only by the company and by the Boston Duck Tours. These things bust out of the rusty looking commercial land-park behind the company building, and roll out to the big street, still dripping with water. So, past all that muck, and take a left on big street, and strolling down the same sidewalk as usual, when, bam! It hits me. The sky. It's different! The sky, which is framed by the 70 foot tall subway bridge looming on my left, and more loosely by the Museum of Science to my right, it's beautiful. The highway I'm walking on, the suspended stone to my left, and the museum buildings to my right, all look like a film-noir-themed Lego set compared to the realness of the sky. In this comfortable frame of the sky, like a windshield view, I see the bluest slice of blue, shaped like a half yin-yang. The blue dominates, but a similar black slice asserts itself, as well.
And purple is there, somewhere. Everywhere. Purple is maybe the color of the electricity flowing through these colors (Because each color buzzed. Each color held it's own, held hit's shape. But it was hard for me to focus on each shape. The blue immediately predicted my eyes falling onto the black, and then onto looking for that purple, and then, ah, just close my eyes and inhale). Maybe someone from Montana or Alaska would read this and scoff at my reverence of a Boston evening sky, but they don't know what they're talking about. In Montana everyone looks at the sky, and everyone is astonished. In Boston, among beeping cars and cell-phoned pedestrians (and later, smiling to myself on the subway), when I witnessed the sky like this, I felt like the first human on Earth.
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Submitted by locksly (user info) at 2007-02-14 03:30:24 EST (#)
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Submitted by RenTheUnsightly (user info) at 2007-02-14 02:36:56 EST (#)
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I actually wrote this. Not that it's that great or anything, but you might believe I took this from Oprah or some shit, compared to my other posts.