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the daily proof that endings can be the most beautiful part of the show

means The soft, dim light in the sky between full daylight and full darkness, especially after sunset.

from An Old English compound: twi- meaning "two" or "half" (a cousin of "twin" and "between") joined to "light." The "twi-" piece is the puzzle — some read it as "half-light," others as the "two" lights of dusk and dawn — but the sense has always hovered in that in-between hour. The same "twi-" haunts "twilit" and lurks, faded, in words like "twice."

three flavors
civil, nautical, astronomical — graded by how dark
blue hour
photographers' favorite light, gone in minutes
sailor's tool
nautical twilight lets you spot the horizon
poles skip it
summer sun never dips low enough to dim
latin root
from 'twi,' meaning two — two lights merging
for instance

twilight saga — book series by stephenie meyer starting 2005, spawned 5 films grossing $3.3 billion

twilight zone — tv series created by rod serling, 156 episodes from 1959-1964, became cultural phenomenon

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