On May 7, 9:10=EF=BF=BDam, Estron <est...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> When is "the dead of night"?
>
> I vote for 3:00 to 4:30 am. =EF=BF=BDBy 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.
Charles Dickens wrote of the "the dead of night."
"It was nearly two hours before daybreak; that time which in the
autumn of the year, may be truly called the dead of night; when the
streets are silent and deserted; when even sounds appear to slumber,
and profligacy and riot have staggered home to dream; it was at this
still and silent hour that Fagin sat watching . . ."
Oliver Twist. Chapter 47. First sentence. (1838).
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