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“The Night Watchman by Stewart Stafford Does the night watchman watch the night or does the night watch him? Is there anything in the darkness or is his eyesight growing dim? Does a beast growl in the shadows or is his stomach requesting food? Is his pay adequate compensation or is his boss just being rude? As he prays for the sunrise, does anyone hear his prayers? When he clocks out for breakfast, is anyone standing there? Does he creep home to his bed to count the hours down? Until he sits staring at the darkness once more with a quizzical and resigned frown? © Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”

PoetryLonelinessPoemNight ShiftPhobiasFear Of The DarkNight WatchWatchmanNight ShiftsIn The Dark Of The Night
Author:Stewart Stafford
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“It wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed… …and gave back the dung from its pens, and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also clothes, and fashions, and ideas, and interesting vices, songs, and knowledge, and something which, if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That was what civilization meant. It meant the city.”

PratchettNight Watch
Book:Night Watch
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“t wasn’t a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who’d never see it in their whole lives nevertheless spent their life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed… …and gave back the dung from its pens and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also its clothes, and fashions and ideas and interesting vices, songs and knowledge and something which if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That’s what civilization meant. It meant the city.”

PratchettNight Watch
Book:Night Watch
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“...Yoksa bütün bunlar sadece bir anlık baygınlıktır da tepenize dikilen piçin teki şimdi bir kazmanın küt ucu ile asıl işine mi girişecektir? Bilinç. bilmek ister, üzüm getirilecek midir? Bu noktada dışarıdan gelen bir uyarı faydalı olur. En popüler olanı, "Her şey yoluna girecek"tir, ama "Plakasını aldınız mı?" kesinlikle kötü bir işarettir; ama ikisi de, "Siz ikiniz ellerini arkasından tutun"dan daha iyidir.”

Sam VimesNight WatchBaygınlıkMuhafızlarYüzbaşı Vimes
Book:Guards! Guards!
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