during the strangest hours , before and after sunrise and sunset , those ears listened with curious fascination to the warbled conversation of birds , dogs and groping adolescents , all with procreation on the brain , striking matches , poses , sparking cigarettes , cocking brows and legs , shedding feathers and fur , spilling laughter and guts as the light switched - indeterminable light , a photographer 's wet dream , the uncatalogued illumination of souls .