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People talk about nightfall, or night falling, or dusk
falling, and it's never seemed right to me.
While others tend to think of the sun "sinking toward the horizon", the author appears to be questioning such turns of phrase & comparing them to his own observations. He's noticed that the sky may still be quite bright at (or near) sunset, although from his POV the ground is in semi-darkness.
In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on
for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and
positively the last guest to leave the party, while the
ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles,
swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making
you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball
of the last over.
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Can you explain it in other words?
"... swallowing for ever
Perhaps not forever, but long enough that some archaeologist(s) will classify the item as a ritual object in the absence of other information. :-Q
that dropped contact lens,
Note... "lens" is singular. Contact lenses are much like the curved glass or plastic bits in your spectacles which are ground or moulded to adjust your vision, but do not require frames because the wearers place them directly on their eyeballs. Occasionally, for whatever reason(s), these things fall to the ground. Then there is great consternation because they are very difficult to see, even under good lighting... and whatever else was going at the time is placed on hold while the owner searches frantically & others try to help. :-)
making you miss that low catch in the gully on the
last ball of the last over."
Paul, where are you? This sounds like something to do with the game of cricket... about which I know very little although it is popular in the UK. At the end of an afternoon or evening game when sunset is rapidly approaching, however, I imagine the ball could be difficult to track.
Using a different analogy... when Dallas & I are returning home from SomePlace Else, and we are facing the setting sun, it's not easy for either of us to see what's on the road ahead. I presume that a such a time a person who has inadvertently dropped a small object might be unable to locate it.... :-)
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