quietmile
/ˈkwaɪətˌmaɪl/nounVerified NewAlso in: Stillemeile (Deutsch) · silencemilla (Español) · silencemille (Français)
The last mile of a night walk, when the world is fully asleep and the walker is the only thing moving.
The quietmile is the walk's final country: no cars, no voices, the streetlights keeping their own counsel. The walker is not lonely exactly — the quietmile is a company of one, and the mile is measured in the quality of the silence, not the distance.
Etym. — quiet + mile — the distance noun for the night walk's deepest stretch; a mile is exactly a measured stretch of a journey, and this one is measured by its quiet.
Rel. — windowtheater · nightcommons
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