逐渐
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
"The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations."
The light was fading, and with it, the warmth of the day.
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."