Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Hogarth Press, 1927.
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Void
Midnight · Hours 0–3Readings
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. The Mystical Theology. c. 500 CE.
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Nāgārjuna. Mūlamadhyamakakārikā. c. 150 CE.
Blanchot, Maurice. Thomas the Obscure. Translated by Robert Lamberton, Station Hill Press, 1988. Originally published 1941.translation in copyright
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Cook, Louisa S. Geometrical Psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts. George Redway, 1887.
SourceInternet Archive
Allais, Alphonse. "Ronde de pochards dans le brouillard." Album primo-avrilesque, 1897.
ContextPublic Domain Review, "April Fools' Album"·Wikimedia Commons
Smithsonian Institution. The 1900 Solar Eclipse Expedition of the Astrophysical Observatory. Smithsonian Institution, 1904.
SourceInternet Archive
Redon, Odilon. The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts toward Infinity. 1882, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
CollectionLACMA
Hush
Pre-dawn · Hours 3–6Readings
Lispector, Clarice. The Passion According to G.H. Translated by Idra Novey, New Directions, 2012. Originally published 1964.translation in copyright
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Young, Kevin. Book of Hours. Knopf, 2014.in copyright
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Cage, John. "Experimental Music." Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan University Press, 1961. Lecture delivered 1957.in copyright
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Novalis. "Hymns to the Night." Rampolli: Growths from a Long-Planted Root, translated by George MacDonald, Longmans, Green, 1897. Originally published 1800.
Images
Bentley, Wilson Alwyn. [Snow Crystal]. c. 1910, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
CollectionThe Met
Lockyer, J. Norman. "Superposition of Two Wave-Systems." "Water-Waves and Sound-Waves," Popular Science Monthly, vol. 13, June 1878.
SourceWikisource
Whistler, James McNeill. Nocturne, Blue and Silver: Battersea Reach. c. 1872–1878, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
CollectionGardner Museum
Steichen, Edward. Moonlight: The Pond. 1904, printed 1906.
Chorus
Dawn · Hours 6–9Readings
Burroughs, John. Wake-Robin. Hurd and Houghton, 1871.
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Field, Michael. "The Depths of the Grass." Wild Honey from Various Thyme, T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.date as captioned (1898); verify edition
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Pessoa, Fernando. The Book of Disquiet. Translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, 2002. Fragment written c. 1913; first assembled and published 1982.translation in copyright
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Sei Shōnagon. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. Translated by Ivan Morris, Columbia University Press, 1971. Originally composed c. 1002.translation in copyright
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Limbourg Brothers. Anatomical Zodiac Man. c. 1412–1416, Musée Condé, Chantilly. Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.
CollectionChâteau de Chantilly
Sivartha, Alesha. The Book of Life; or, The Spiritual, Social, and Physical Constitution of Man. Sivartha Publishing, 1898.
SourceHathiTrust
Smith, Arthur E. "Human Blood x1000." Nature Through Microscope & Camera, by Richard Kerr, Religious Tract Society, 1909.
SourceHathiTrust
Harris, Moses. Prismatic Colour Wheel. The Natural System of Colours, 1766, Royal Academy of Arts, London.
CollectionRoyal Academy
Transit
Morning · Hours 9–12Readings
Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass, 1892 ed., David McKay.
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Naidu, Sarojini. "Palanquin-Bearers." The Golden Threshold, William Heinemann, 1906.
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Eliot, T. S. "Little Gidding." Four Quartets, Harcourt, Brace, 1943.in copyright — estate actively enforces
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Johnson, Helene. "The Road." Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, edited by Countee Cullen, Harper & Brothers, 1927.
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Heraclitus. "Fragments 41–42." On Nature, translated by G. T. W. Patrick, 1889. Composed c. 500 BCE.
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Images
Darwin, Charles. The Power of Movement in Plants. John Murray, 1880.
SourceHathiTrust
Vermeer, Johannes. Woman Reading a Letter. c. 1663, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
CollectionRijksmuseum
Unknown. Diagram of the Winds (I). c. 1170–1200, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MS W.73.
CollectionThe Digital Walters
Muybridge, Eadweard. Plate 169. Animal Locomotion, vol. 7, 1887.
Sourcedigitized plate
Abbott, Berenice. Seventh Avenue Looking South from 35th Street. 1935, New York Public Library Digital Collections.in copyright — estate licenses actively
CollectionNYPL Digital Collections
Fulcrum
Noon · Hours 12–15Readings
Freytag, Gustav. Technique of the Drama. Translated by Elias J. MacEwan, Scott, Foresman, 1894.
SourceInternet Archive
Cavafy, C. P. "When They Come Alive." C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, Princeton University Press, 1975. Written 1916.translation copyright — pending resolution
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Weil, Simone. "The Mysticism of Work." Gravity and Grace, translated by Emma Crawford and Mario von der Ruhr, Routledge, 2002. Written c. 1935; first published 1947.translation in copyright
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H.D. "Mid-day." Sea Garden, Constable, 1916.
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Images
af Klint, Hilma. Group IX/UW, No. 25, The Dove, No. 1. 1915, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
CollectionGuggenheim Bilbao
Campbell, A. J. A. Brightfield Light Microscopy Leaf Print of Fraxinus gooddingii, 200x Magnification. 2025, Wikimedia Commons.recent, living creator — verify CC license terms
SourceWikimedia Commons
Hitchcock, Orra White. Epochs of Elevation. c. 1828–1840, Amherst College Archives & Special Collections.
CollectionAmherst College Digital Collections
Caillebotte, Gustave. Raboteurs de parquet. 1875, Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
CollectionMusée d'Orsay
Doldrums
Afternoon · Hours 15–18Readings
James, William. Psychology: The Briefer Course. Henry Holt, 1892.
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Burton, Robert. "The Author's Abstract of Melancholy." The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621.
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Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Written 1927–1940.translation in copyright
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Dickinson, Emily. "There's a certain Slant of light." c. 1861. Emily Dickinson Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Images
Monet, Claude. Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer). 1890–1891, Art Institute of Chicago.
CollectionArt Institute of Chicago
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago. A Purkinje Neuron from the Human Cerebellum. c. 1900, Wikimedia Commons.
SourceWikimedia Commons
Brigman, Anne. Infinitude. c. 1910.hosted scan may carry separate rights — consider sourcing museum copy
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Degas, Edgar. A Woman Ironing. 1873, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
CollectionThe Met
Convivium
Evening · Hours 18–21Readings
Sappho. "Fragment 104a." Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation, translated by Henry Thornton Wharton, John Lane, 1908. Composed c. 630–580 BCE.
Stein, Gertrude. "Celery," "Veal," "Vegetable," "Way Lay Vegetable." Tender Buttons, Claire Marie, 1914.
Tanizaki, Jun'ichirō. In Praise of Shadows. Translated by Thomas J. Harper and Edward G. Seidensticker, Leete's Island Books, 1977. Originally published 1933.translation in copyright
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Fisher, M. F. K. The Gastronomical Me. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1943.in copyright — actively republished
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Images
Davis, Harold. Salad Mandala. 2020.living photographer — active commercial licensing
Sourcedigitalfieldguide.com
Wragge, Clement Lindley. Sunset, G2. 1905, Auckland War Memorial Museum.
CollectionAuckland Museum, Flickr Commons
Cézanne, Paul. The Basket of Apples. c. 1893, Art Institute of Chicago.
CollectionArt Institute of Chicago
Hiroshige, Utagawa. Cooling Off in the Evening at Shijogawara. c. 1834, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
CollectionThe Met
Denouement
Night · Hours 21–24Readings
Rilke, Rainer Maria. "Evening." Poems, 1918.
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Wright, Richard. "9." Haiku: This Other World, Arcade Publishing, 1998. Written c. 1959.in copyright — estate actively protective
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Beckett, Samuel. Watt. Olympia Press, 1953.in copyright — estate aggressively enforces
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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Last Poems, Selwyn & Blount, 1918. Written 1917.
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Images
Kuindzhi, Arkhip. Moonlit Night on the Dnieper. 1880, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
ContextWikipedia
Giberne, Agnes. The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Seeley, 1898.
SourceHathiTrust
Haeckel, Ernst. "Leptomedusae." Das System der Medusen, vol. 1, Gustav Fischer, 1879.
SourceInternet Archive
Tryon, Dwight William. After Sunset: Looking East. 1915, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution.
CollectionSmithsonian
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