You learn things from putting a child to bed. You learn a lot about robbers and boogiemen. For creatures who sneak around in the crepuscular shadows, they are remarkably sensitive to subtle gradations of illumination. We have dimmers everywhere, so I have learned to calibrate the light just so. Doors are a simpler proposition – either they are closed completely, or they might as well be wide open. If the door is slightly ajar, all sorts of evil can flow into the room. Close it completely, and the robbers are utterly confounded. A knob! Curses! I thought the alarm system was bad enough, but now a knob stands in our way? Let us retreat through the skylight from whence we came, lads.
-Lileks
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