are you going out tonight?

"Strange feelings from the orange sunlight on this sandy dry country so far from home.

[...] just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness.

[...] people who've been there all day long, going about the business of the day, who now find nothing unusual or different in this strange darkening landscape

[...] now a heavy feeling of isolation and loneliness becomes dominant and my spirits wane with the sun"

- pirsig