The Night Circus

If the magic is still there in the daytime, he cannot feel it.

They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. Looping and continuous.

OPENING DAY, OR opening night, rather, is spectacular. Every last detail is planned,

And the constant impression as though he is not really there, blending so well into the background that she would occasionally forget he was in the room.

It seems a lifetime ago that he walked to the circus, though it was only a few hours. And more than that, it feels as though the Bailey who entered the circus was an entirely different person than the one leaving it now,

ETHEREAL ENIGMAS,

The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.

When the gates open at last, Herr Friedrick Thiessen feels as though he is returning home after an extended absence. He spends almost every night there, and during the day he sits in his rented flat or at the pub with a glass of wine and a journal and he writes about it. Pages and pages of observations, recounting his experiences, mostly so he will

To see how their experience overlaps with my own and how it differs.