The moon shone to-night, and its light was not of a customary kind. His window admitted only a reflection of its rays, and the pale sheen had that reversed direction which snow gives, coming upward and lighting up his ceiling in an unnatural way, casting shadows in strange places, and putting lights where shadows had used to be.
"In an unnatural way." Typically light symbolizes knowledge/enlightment, but Hardy's use of the word "unnatural" makes me wary
