Word: abyss
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...scuba divers. The seafloor starts its descent to the continental shelf a few meters below the waves, then rapidly turns vertical and beyond the reach of even the most deep-lunged of snorkelers. The sensation during that first wall dive is somewhere between giddiness and terror. Floating above an abyss populated by the flickering forms of deepwater sea creatures takes some getting used to, but distractions abound. The wall is covered with a moving mosaic of fat, brown sea cucumbers, vivid corals, shrinking anemones and tiny, glittering fish. The deeper you go, the larger and more exotic the marine life...
Elvis Costello once sniffed that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." The same could be said of writing about drugs. How could any author, no matter how gifted, hope to capture in mere words the genuine rapture of mind-expanding substances, as well as the hopeless abyss that usually follows prolonged abuse? True, a few sharpies?William Burroughs, Irvine Welsh, maybe Terry Southern?have managed to pull it off. But most drug memoirs are pretty much alike?either they're heated Hunter S. Thompson rip-offs packed with hackneyed hallucinations (bats, lizards) and heavily-punctuated (!!!!) rants, or languid...
Fascinating character study episode in which Teela falls into the bottomless abyss beneath Castle Grayskull and we discover that the abyss supplies the power...
...Israel today, there is no hope. There is only despair, and intimations of the abyss...
Perhaps there is a way out of the abyss. Perhaps the hearts of the crowds that cheer the suicide bombers as they cheered the fall of the twin towers will be changed by a new leader, a fresh wind, a bold initiative. Perhaps...