DECEMBER 7,8,9, 2018
ROCKWELL KENT WILDERNESS CENTENNIAL JOURNAL 100 YEARS LATER by Doug Capra © 2018 December 7, 8, 9, 2018 The three peaks of Fox Island lighted by the sun at 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. Capra photo. "Three AM is eternal. Three AM is infernal. It's the hour of the wolf. The time at which fear and sadness and regret rack up so that it becomes impossible to get to sleep. Insomnia and self-pity: it's a recipe for hysteria, for wild, lunging desperation...The silent night amplifies the din in our skulls, returns us to a primal solitude." Sukhdev Sandhu in Night Haunts: A Journey Through the London Night. London: Verso Books, 2007. Late evening, Saturday, December 7, 1918 The Kathleen-Hildegarde Saga continues: Kent has already written one letter on this day to his wife which I discussed in the last entry. Now he writes another as midnight and the Hour of the Wolf arrives -- and it becomes…