/lit/ - Literature

>12am-6am
>outside—elevated porch on wooden stilt house, facing the rainforest
>Simple chair and table
>Buzzing electrical wires, washed yellow streetlight nearby, swarming insects and bats feeding in full view
>moonless, milky way oerhead
>hurricane lamp (quinque) for lighting the pages and for heat
>no need for music, jungle symphony of frogs suffices
>When sun rises—FUUUU IT’S MOSQUITO HOUR RUN INSIDE!
>stroll in the morning through the plantain and banana forest after an hour’s nap to beat the mosquito hour

It’s hard to get comfy in the tropics, but love delayed is love strengthened, so the rare moments are cherished all the more