Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-11-30 13:09
Also, from a biologist's point of view, homo sapiens being a diurnal creature, "light" is good and "dark" is bad, because the darkness is when all the predators who can see much better than we do, hunt. And we're edible.
Which tends to carry over into things like language and religion. We personify our gods as the sun, the ultimate light source, for example.
So when we hear someone say that a reed sounds "dark", we instinctively recoil, just a tiny bit.
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