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The hour when the world forgets which color it is.
means The dim, diffuse light of dawn or dusk, when day and night blur and shapes lose their hard edges.
from A plain compound of "half" and "light" — Old English "healf" and "lēoht" — describing illumination that is, quite literally, only halfway there. "Half" has long been pressed into service for things incomplete or in-between (half-asleep, half-baked, half-hearted), and "half-light" simply applies that logic to the sky: not the full brightness of day, not the full dark of night, but the measured portion that lingers at the threshold of both.
- science term
- Photographers call it the blue hour, before sunrise or after sunset
- eye trick
- Your rod cells take over, killing your color vision
- latin root
- Twilight means between two lights, dawn and dusk
- hunting hour
- Predators and prey both rely on this dimness
- poets adore it
- Yeats wrote a whole collection named for it
half light by hutton — 1980 film by peter hutton, 16mm experimental work shot in new york
half light 2006 film — horror thriller starring demi moore set in scottish highlands