If you begin reading this little book at the beginning of dusk, you'll finish it by nightfall.

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It is a rendition of Twilight in words, considering how night rises, noting the animals of twilight, otter, badger, wolf, and bat. It considers how twilight is an enigmatic light, and a subtle state of mind. Twilight is the hour of the Trickster. 

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"This is the tricky hour – when the eye plays tricks on you, foxing you with a deer shadow.  ‘In the night, every cat is a leopard,’ as the Italian proverb says.  Sight, ruler of the senses during daytime, and untrickable at noon, is now, at dusk, losing power to the insurrection of the other senses.

Reliance on hearing increases.  The body stills itself to feel more, quiets itself to hear more.  The word 'listen' is an anagram of 'silent'.

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Twilight upsets the day, subverting its settled order.  The establishment Middle C of daytime rises to an F sharp at dusk, the eerie augmented fourth, the tense, alluring, weird interval, called, famously, the Devil’s Interval, used in the opening of West Side Story, and also in Wagner’s ‘Twilight of the Gods’.  

 

It is a loop-hole, a loup-hole, a hole for the wolf (loup in French) to pass through.  If it is played after Middle C, this is the one of all the twelve notes on a piano keyboard which make the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. This interval was suppressed by the church of the Middle Ages for creating a space that let the devil in. But this gap, this interval, is necessary to let the trickster in."