Word: abyss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this juncture, when we seemed to be looking into the very abyss of death, we knelt down and with eyes toward heaven asked Divine mercy. It came. We were saved...
...knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all the immensity of nature that one can conceive, within the bounds of this epitome of an atom. He may see an infinity of universes each with its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion...
Down from abyss to abyss...
...beneath parts of the seafloor. There must also be rarer minerals, unimagined fishes, unguessable vestiges of the planet's youth. And even should nothing of "practical" value be found, the divers may experience the exaltation of explorers as intrepid as any that ever served Science-silent, in an abyss off Darien...
Stella inevitably revenged her kind by plunging Savaron down the abyss of sex. Writing his autobiography afforded him a ledge to cling to tem- porarily. Then that crumbled and he dreamed dizzily of himself as im- prisoned by the Winkelbergs, craning out of a lopsided tenement win- dow in a nightcap, blowing kisses into infinity. He left Stella, strug- gled a while to brake his racing thoughts, then blew his tired brains...