The night behind the day

"I can easily describe that look: it is nothing; it is a purely negative entity: imagine a pitch-dark night.
It's the night that looks at you, but it's a dazzling night, in fullest splendor; the night behind the day. I am flooded with black light; it is all over my eyes and hands and heart, and I can't see it.

Believe me, I at first loathed this incessant violation of myself; as you know, I used to long to become invisible, to go and leave no trace, on earth or on men's hearts. What anguish to discover that look as a universal medium from which I can't escape! But what a relief as well!

I know at last that I am. I adapt for my own use, and to your disgust, your prophet's foolish wicked words: 'I think, therefore I am,' which used to trouble me so sorely, for the more I thought, the less I seemed to be; and I say: 'I am seen, therefore I am'. . .

I am infinite and infinitely guilty. But I *am*, Mathieu, I am."

From [link] ^^

(Yeeeah. Light and L agaaaain. :3 And I finshed the first two books of the Roads to Freedom recently. Actually, the quote was the whole reason for the drawing. Also--the thought of Light as Daniel Sereno makes me happy. ^^)