Covid-19 Diary, part 1: the darkness isn’t total.
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I’ve been walking at night, once Bernadette is asleep, and it is an eerie, discomfiting experience. The houses are dark. The streets are empty. The restaurants are closed. The few cars on the road drive reckless and fast. It feels like a movie set. Omega Man. The World, the Flesh and the Devil. Vanilla Sky. 28 Days Later. The few people I do see stay away from me, and I stay away from them. Everyone seems dangerous, threatening, sinister.