It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.
James Agee, Walker Evans (2001). “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt