Estron wrote:
> When is "the dead of night"?
>
> I vote for 3:00 to 4:30 am. By three, there are no commercial
> establishments open except the ones that aren't going to close, if
you're
> intentionally staying up all night, you feel weariness, and if you're
> trying to go to sleep and you know it's after three, you feel defeated.
>
> And 4:30 is when people who work the early ****ft are starting to wake up
> and get moving, but it's still well before any daytime commercial
activity
> begins.
>
"Dead" as in "deathly silent". So if you live where the bars close
at midnight and all the cars have left the parking lot by 12:30 am
and there are no more people or cars moving around outside, then
it is "dead of night" until the time that people, cars, milkmen,
and garbage collectors start moving around again.
Charles
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