I could lucubrate largely de omni scibili,
                               but paper happily runs short.
                                   —Thomas Arnold, 1795–1842

     The lucubrator's† day  is  litrefacient,‡  to  be  sure
(e.g. four post- to eight ante-meridiem); but the georgical§
is superior (media nox to four post meridiem).**

     While  facient  men†† prefer either to the journal‡‡ or
illucubrate day, one is tardy and sinister; the other, fresh
and dextrous.

───────────
  Epigraph. Life and correspondence, 75.
  * Kathleen Haley gewidmet.
  † [a. L. lucubrare] To work by artificial light.
  ‡ [a. L. littera letter, facere to make] Produc‐
ing words; whether writing, composing or  program‐
ming.
  Formed  on analogy with obdurefacio [< obdurare]
as opposed to, say, afficio [< affeci]; on account
of the strong a and first conjugation.
  The elision of the medial e in litera- -> litra-
is probably illegitimate.
  § [a. Gr. γεοργός husbandman] Agricultural. 1660
BURNEY Κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 42 Men  wil  sweat  upon
certain  ground  in georgical affairs, and venture
themselves  upon  uncertain  ground   in   warlike
exploits.
  ** It should be noted that Glenn Gould preferred
georgical to lucubratory.
  †† Cf.  Nietzsches's  schaffender  Mensch:  “Den
Schaffenden hassen sie am meisten: den, der Tafeln
bricht  und alte Werthe, den Brecher - den heissen
sie Verbrecher. Zarathustra, §56.”
  [They hate facient man the most: he  who  breaks
tables  and old values; the breaker: they nominate
him law-breaker.]
  ‡‡ [a. L. diurnalem] Diurnal. 1590 SPENSER  F.Q.
I.  xi.  31  Phœbus..his  faint  steedes watred in
Ocean deepe, Whiles from  their  iournall  labours
they did rest.