there 's lots of life here , loads of it , just ignoring the town as you please , birds and green snakes and frogs and kivits and both kinds of squirrel and ( i promise you ) a cassor or two and sure there 's red snakes to watch out for but even tho it 's dark , there 's slashes of light that come down from holes in the roof and if you ask me , which you may not be , i grant you that , to me the swamp 's like one big , comfy , not very noisy room .