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While a football game comprises exactly an hour of play as well as a basketball game forty or forty-eight minutes, baseball has no set game duration. The pace of the game is therefore leisurely and unhurried, much like the world was once, prior to the deadlines, schedules and hour wages. As a matter of fact, baseball is associated with the period when people had all day to play a game. Much like traditional rural life, baseball proceeds based on the rhythm of nature, specifically the rotation with the Earth around itself along with the Sun. In fact, during its early years, baseball was not played at night time, which resulted in this traditional leisure game was over before sunset in the latest. Darkness and light are themes that run heavily through Van Gogh's work. Darkness and light reflected his wish create beauty, his feelings of inadequacy, with his fantastic wish to touch the souls in men. For instance, Starry Night draws the viewer in to the painting of an sleeping village with its swirls of light and its rich evening sky.