How does the darkness down there in the cellar know when the day has ended? wonders Little Brother. He can’t sleep, he keeps thinking about all the dangerous night animals who live under the bed and make it impossible for him to shut his eyes.– But w ...
How does the darkness down there in the cellar know when the day has ended? wonders Little Brother. He can’t sleep, he keeps thinking about all the dangerous night animals who live under the bed and make it impossible for him to shut his eyes.
– But what is the Dark? I am afraid of the Dark, says Little Brother.
– The Dark is nothing, are you afraid of nothing?
– But it must be something, mustn’t it?
– You can get hold of things that are something. You can’t get hold of the Dark. So it must be nothing.
Can the dark go to sleep? wonders Little Brother. Because he doesn’t dare. He keeps thinking about all the dangerous night animals who live under his bed, and make it impossible for him to shut his eyes. Big Brother explains that there is nothing to be afraid of, that the dark itself is not dangerous. But that answer isn’t good enough for Little Brother, so it only leads to new questions: “How does the Dark down there in the cellar know when the day has ended, and when it is time to get up and brush your teeth and make the world dark?” In a conversation on the edge of his bed, they touch on exciting questions about night and day, dark and light.