No matter how cheerful and blameless the days activities have been, when you wake in the middle of the night there is guilt in the air, a gnawing feeling of everything being slightly off, wrong you in the wrong, and the world too, as if darkness is a kind of light that shows us the depth we are about to fall into.
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John Updike was a 20th-century American writer. John Hoyer Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Read more on Wikipedia →