Can't sleep. Don't want to sleep. I have just been walking through the neighborhood for an hour. The city is beautiful at night. Like a naked body. It is possible to see both all the scars and all the beauty it contains. But I do find the darkened windows in the walls of the buildings to be rather unnerving.

At night the city flashes bright with advertisements and traffic lights. For a while I thought that advertisements said a lot about society, about how we think. But the truth is, I later realised, that advertisements are what the advertiser believes that we think. It is merely a caricature of us as a whole, drawn by a select few. This is quite a comforting thought.

The best part of the city as night is the thousands of sounds that the silence contains. At day these are obscured by different things, mainly traffic. But at night, even the smallest sound can be heard in it's entirety. There are many sounds, it is a very beautiful soundscape. Occasionally a single vehicle of some sort drives by, and this one isolated sound of a single car is marvelous.