Work Title

Night Life

Creators

James Hawekotte

Description

In innumerable industries there is a night shift. A group of men whose day is the night; who live for weeks at a time and never see the sun. In a way this is a fascinating existance. I know, for I lived it all through the past summer.

Some people are shocked at the idea of sleeping through the day and then arising as everyone else goes to bed. I enjoyed starting to work at eleven o'clock. I had the streets to myself. There was no hurrying crowd, noisy traffic; Indianapolis was all mine; mine and a few others that lived as I did. To me the night was calm, soft and mysterious. The downtown streets were strangely quiet, lighted boulevards. Gradually the night grew more attractive to me than the day. I could feel like a king surveying his kingdom; rather than merely a part of a hurrying metropolis.

Recommended Citation

Hawekotte, James (1942) "Night Life," Manuscripts: Vol. 9 : Iss. 3 , Article 25.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/manuscripts/vol9/iss3/25