Does this make any sense?

[jaF0]

A strange bunch.

 

[PBAnnie]

A strange bunch.

You've been here long enough, you should have known your thread would devolve into this mess. Write your story the way it sounds good to you and don't worry too much if a handful of readers suffer from butt-hurt. If they think they can do better they should put their pen to paper and show us how great they are.

 

[LilyWaters]

Sometime between midnight and the middle of the night in the dark of the house, not a creature was stirring .... almost. A faint glow began to cast shadows across the room gradually becoming more intense. The orb that had been placed on the mantle also began to emit a soft hum as the glow increased and it lifted itself gently into the air, beginning to explore the house.



Or something like that.

My initial thought was that the phrase would give the story a kind of magical feel. And yay, a glowing orb!

In a story where you are incorporating magical elements, YOU get to say what makes sense. Write wbat you like, and then see if you feel like it holds up in your edits. I like it.

 

[SimonDoom]

A strange bunch.

Consider what draws us all to this place.

 

[XerXesXu]

A strange bunch.

Having followed this thread closely and taken everyone's contribution into account, especially KiethD's, I'm beginning to read it as something like a permutation of this:

‘In the (godforsaken/forlorn/contested) time(-shift/slip) between (mankind’s/the clock's/the Bishop's) Midnight and the mid-night of (the un-dead/a sailor/Hornblower/a Vulcan)’

Getting warmer or colder?

 

[jaF0]

A strange bunch.

I should have posted the rest of it.



A strange bunch.
The only winning move is not to post.





(I know someone will get that.)

 

[MillieDynamite]

Just as an aside, I don't like daylight savings time. Supposedly, a woman in Arizona said, "I don't like daylight savings time, because it fades my curtains with the extra daylight." I had to laugh when I read it. Some people.

On a serious note, I don't like it because its use does through off noon and midnight. I don't like because I don't want to spring forward, or fall back. I don't like it because my father says it was the beginning of the end for Drive In movie's. I don't like it because it is a silly concept. The best fun happens after sunset, and delays that fun.

Just some musing from one of the strange people that inhabits Literotica

 

[PBAnnie]

(I know someone will get that.)

Joshua got it.

 

[XerXesXu]

I should have posted the rest of it.



A strange bunch.
The only winning move is not to post.

(I know someone will get that.)

A master of the cryptic.

Gripping stuff. Can't wait to hear what comes next.

 

[Trionyx]

I read a history of sleep years ago that investigated that. The author read diaries written by all sorts of people over the centuries, and a very common occurrence was a creative state in the middle of the night, after the first three or four hours sleep. The diary writers, especially writer writers but other folk too, would wake, light candles, and write for several hours, then go back to bed for several more hours, finally waking with dawn.

It was commonly defined as a kind of fugue state, not fully conscious like in day-time, still lucid but not dreaming either. Seems the rested mind actually thought and processed differently.

My mum, as she got older, said the same thing - how she got by with far less sleep, and would wake in the night for an hour or two. Once she got used to it, she wouldn't fight it, and ending up reading twice as much. I'm starting to find it too, but that might just be the bladder...

Before easy access to artificial light, people usually went to sleep when it got dark. In the winter, the nights could be quite long. People would wake up and stir around for an hour or so before sleeping until light. It was during this time that more than a few pregnancies were started. (Likewise, in summer when the nights are shorter, people slept less yet had plenty of energy.) To this day sleep doctors advise people not to worry if they wake up for a little bit during a long night. It is part of the natural sleep cycle.

 

[KeithD]

As long as it dawns on folks that there's no one answer to what little that was included in this question. It all depends on the greater context and isn't English literature great that there's more than one context possible?

 

[SimonDoom]

I should have posted the rest of it.



A strange bunch.
The only winning move is not to post.





(I know someone will get that.)

Matthew Broderick.

The movie he's in, anyway.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Shall we play a nice game of posting?

 

[jaF0]

Lital Thermoformular Postfare.

 

[XerXesXu]

Lital Thermoformular Postfare.

Mastertiouslyful tispakes

 

[EdEc]

Midnight IS the MIDdle of the NIGHT. I can prove it Here, in Cuenca, Ecuador, the sun sets at around 6:00 pm and rises at around 6:00 a.m. every day. Night is 12 hours long. 6:00 p.m. plus 6 hours is 12:00 midnight.Midnight (12:00) plus 6 hours is 6:00 a.m.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Midnight IS the MIDdle of the NIGHT. I can prove it Here, in Cuenca, Ecuador, the sun sets at around 6:00 pm and rises at around 6:00 a.m. every day. Night is 12 hours long. 6:00 p.m. plus 6 hours is 12:00 midnight.Midnight (12:00) plus 6 hours is 6:00 a.m.

Yes, when you are just south of the equator, your days and nights would be very much the same amount of time.

 

[jaF0]

And when you get far enough north, the middle of the night could be like ... January.

 

[MillieDynamite]

And when you get far enough north, the middle of the night could be like ... January.

May I never be that far north. I don't like the cold at all. I also am not to crazy about 90 degree heat and 87% humidity.

 

[Emirus]

. Does mid-day equal noon, or is it more of a vague time within the afternoon?

What exactly is a bungalow?)

Dear Alex Bailey,

I see no one has answered your question “what exactly is a bungalow?” and as it is important I thought you should know. To an American it’s a single storey home. The original definition is:

“Why is a bungalow called a bungalow?

Bungalow, single-storied house with a sloping roof, usually small and often surrounded by a veranda. The name derives from a Hindi word meaning “a house in the Bengali style” and came into English during the era of the British administration of India.

https://www.britannica.com › bunga...
Bungalow”

However, the correct definition, in the UK, is that a man was building a house and ran out of money so he told the builder to “bung a low roof on it.” Some phrases travel across the Atlantic okay or but probably/possibly not that one. But an American should get the gist of it.

As for “midnight and the middle of the night” is there anyone, except those who live on the equator, to whom midnight is the actual middle of the night? I think to the average person the middle of the night occurs sometime in the early hours of the day.

However, to me, midnight nowadays means sleep. The early hours means getting out of bed to visit the bathroom.

best wishes,

Emirus

 

[nobodyridesforfree]

yep

To me, it looks like someone trying to be smart. I guess it's somewhere between twelve and three at night, but indicated in a confusing way.

Semantic twists can be confusing w/o 'nuff context

 

[AlexBailey]

Dear Alex Bailey,

I see no one has answered your question “what exactly is a bungalow?” and as it is important I thought you should know. To an American it’s a single storey home. The original definition is:

“Why is a bungalow called a bungalow?

Bungalow, single-storied house with a sloping roof, usually small and often surrounded by a veranda. The name derives from a Hindi word meaning “a house in the Bengali style” and came into English during the era of the British administration of India.

https://www.britannica.com › bunga...
Bungalow”

However, the correct definition, in the UK, is that a man was building a house and ran out of money so he told the builder to “bung a low roof on it.” Some phrases travel across the Atlantic okay or but probably/possibly not that one. But an American should get the gist of it.

As for “midnight and the middle of the night” is there anyone, except those who live on the equator, to whom midnight is the actual middle of the night? I think to the average person the middle of the night occurs sometime in the early hours of the day.

However, to me, midnight nowadays means sleep. The early hours means getting out of bed to visit the bathroom.

best wishes,

Emirus

Thanks, Emirus.


That was much more informative than perusing real estate listings. I have heard it used in broader terms that could include almost any small one story house, but that description narrows it down very well and includes what I had in mind when I referred to a surfer's beach bungalow in a story.

'Roadhouse Blues' by the Doors was probably my first reference, but that doesn't provide much clarity, and I doubt those were really bungalows - though they were probably occupied through any definition you could find of midnight.