Something of the Night eBook Ian Marchant
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Who can say what the night might bring?
Fireworks and frivolity? A party? Music and dancing? The night is where we have the most fun. Or you could be reading in bed, between clean sheets, before falling into deep restful sleep and sweet dreams.
And who knows? The night might bring romance, or love or sex, if you play your cards right.
Or the night could be where we work. Millions of people do. If everyone slept all night, Britain would cease to function.
Or the night could be indifferent; cold, haunted, inhuman. When you look up into the night sky, you see that you are nothing. An insignificant mote of dust.
Or the night could be all too human.Hen parties in skimpy dresses and fairy wings are being slammed into the back of a police van. Prostitutes walk the streets; business men go to lap dancing clubs to forget what waits at home.
On an after-hours journey around the British Isles - investigating nightingales in the Cotswolds, meteors in Shropshire, dog-racing in Belfast, a service station in Lancaster and Bonfire celebrations in East Sussex - Ian Marchant sets out to discover the different ways that we while away that half of our lives normally spent in darkness.
Something of the Night eBook Ian Marchant
"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything." - novelist Lawrence Durrell"I did learn something from those nights in Iona Abbey. Which is that even if you can't always connect, it's always worth a go. All you can do is remember and reflect, and try to stay true to the handful of truths you have managed to pick up; and also to say thank you, to Whatever." - Ian Marchant, in SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT
SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT by Ian Marchant is subtitled "A Journey into the Darkness of the British Isles", which perhaps infers either ominous or salacious overtones, or both. Rather, it's more than less a personal history of the author's experiences between sunset and sunrise, he being a self-proclaimed night owl. And, except for his recollection of his search for guilty, sleazy sex in Soho, it hasn't much of either inference. And even that tale is more ruefully self-deprecatory than scandalous.
Whether he's participating in Bonfire Night in Lewes, cheering on the home team at a night football match, having a chinwag with the graveyard shift of a motorway service station, taking the night boat to Northern Ireland to visit the last damask linen mill, popping in at the Spaceguard Centre observatory in Wales, trudging the darkened Cotswolds in search of nightingales, attending evening services at Iona Abbey, getting up at night to pass water when no loo is at hand, being admitted to a hospital's emergency room in the wee hours, or observing the winter solstice at Stonehenge, all his experiences are topical to the book's theme and chattily and humorously told.
The reason I'm knocking off a star is that Ian insists on including in his narrative rambling, beer and spliff-fueled conversations, albeit nocturnal, that he has with his best pal Neil on the validity of their respective music tastes, particularly the author's. I appreciate that Marchant cares about something so esoteric, but I didn't, and there's no compelling reason for him to think that any reader of SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT necessarily would. The debates should have been edited out.
I would refer the reader to Ian's Parallel Lines, which, to me, is a better and more substantial demonstration of his storytelling skill.
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Something of the Night eBook Ian Marchant Reviews
"I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything." - novelist Lawrence Durrell
"I did learn something from those nights in Iona Abbey. Which is that even if you can't always connect, it's always worth a go. All you can do is remember and reflect, and try to stay true to the handful of truths you have managed to pick up; and also to say thank you, to Whatever." - Ian Marchant, in SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT
SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT by Ian Marchant is subtitled "A Journey into the Darkness of the British Isles", which perhaps infers either ominous or salacious overtones, or both. Rather, it's more than less a personal history of the author's experiences between sunset and sunrise, he being a self-proclaimed night owl. And, except for his recollection of his search for guilty, sleazy sex in Soho, it hasn't much of either inference. And even that tale is more ruefully self-deprecatory than scandalous.
Whether he's participating in Bonfire Night in Lewes, cheering on the home team at a night football match, having a chinwag with the graveyard shift of a motorway service station, taking the night boat to Northern Ireland to visit the last damask linen mill, popping in at the Spaceguard Centre observatory in Wales, trudging the darkened Cotswolds in search of nightingales, attending evening services at Iona Abbey, getting up at night to pass water when no loo is at hand, being admitted to a hospital's emergency room in the wee hours, or observing the winter solstice at Stonehenge, all his experiences are topical to the book's theme and chattily and humorously told.
The reason I'm knocking off a star is that Ian insists on including in his narrative rambling, beer and spliff-fueled conversations, albeit nocturnal, that he has with his best pal Neil on the validity of their respective music tastes, particularly the author's. I appreciate that Marchant cares about something so esoteric, but I didn't, and there's no compelling reason for him to think that any reader of SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT necessarily would. The debates should have been edited out.
I would refer the reader to Ian's Parallel Lines, which, to me, is a better and more substantial demonstration of his storytelling skill.
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