The dusk's glimmer shone on the face, and at this moment, Armand Bernhardt at the pier could no longer distinguish between reality and illusion, nor between life and death. In a daze, he realized that "dusk" itself had the implication of dividing life and death. Then he immediately understood that perhaps everything happening now was precisely a fleeting blurring of life and death due to human reason.
The originally dazzling and brilliant sun, though still partly submerged on the sea's horizon, had a strangely ambiguous yellowish hue. The waves, one after another, merged with the dark waters and suddenly calmed down. The ships on the sea had vanished without notice, and looking at the calm water from the pier, he found the surface glaringly bright.
