nightlibrary
/ˈnaɪtˌlaɪbrəri/nounVerified NewAlso in: Nachtbibliothek (Deutsch) · noctebiblioteca (Español) · nuitbibliothèque (Français)
The house at night as a library of small sounds — the fridge, the pipes, the settling wood, all catalogued by the sleepless.
The nightlibrary opens when the day's noise closes. Its collection is complete: the refrigerator's hum, the stair's complaint, the car that passes and does not return. The librarian is the insomniac, who knows every volume and has read none of them by choice.
Etym. — night + library — the archive metaphor for the night's sound-world; a library is exactly a quiet place where everything is catalogued and nothing is loud.
Rel. — quietcurfew · ceilingmap
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