ALLOW me to write about early dawn. About those hours for insomniacs, when the night can no longer be called night, but the morning has not yet come. About people who are not asleep, like you and me, who cannot sleep, those who are musing or daydreaming, doing some kind of work, or at some kind of prayer, those trying to forget solitude, or those trying to find it.

Allow me to write about darkness. The time before dawn is when the dark, which h