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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

Carl von Clausewitz
Twilight, Fog, Action
Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.140, Princeton University Press
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.