8/21 Strangest of evenings. The sun had set behind the buildings on the New Jersey waterfront, turning them into a dark backdrop, yet the sky behind them was still bright orange and purple and everything felt like daylight, and yet the lights in the buildings, and also far north along the George Washington, had already come on, and they seemed in perfect balance with the other lights of this evening. Also, the river: short waves modulated onto a long-rolling swell, a kind of grey-green-brown liquid metal.