During the winter months in the darkness, after your head-torch's batteries have succumbed and failed in the cold, you are left to feel your way around your environment blindly, whilst being a prisoner of your own mind.

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Once through the doors of the auditorium, your eyes adjust to the darkness as you move down the aisle, taking it all in, from the balconies to the ornate ceiling to the group in the spotlight way down front.

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This past week there were early mornings, depending on where you lived, and your ability to have woken up in darkness to watch the spectacle.

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But if you then begin to blow out yours and other people flow your example and blow out theirs, then before you know it, darkness will descend into this room.

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