If it's noon and it's dark, then that is one possibility. Or a solar eclipse provides some level of darkness. Or you've fallen down a mining shaft. Or maybe the easiest one - closed eyes while indoors... perhaps in a closet to add that extra touch of real inky blackness at noontime?
But none of these refer specifically to the reasoning behind today's book review book title. Darkness at Noon is a work darkly satirizing the Great Terror of 1930s Soviet Russia. Calling it "satire" is almost like calling one of Stalin's show trials during the purges "a little legal difficulty." It doesn't do the term justice, nor cover the scope involved.
Anyway, read the review for yourself and see what I mean.
Book Review: Darkness at Noon
I've posted one of these Monty Python skits before, but this one is slightly different. Either way, poking fun at the pillars of Communist dogma always makes me grin.
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