Word: abyss
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...created man, so Shakespeare created Hamlet. He is an infinite mar vel. He is more than a part: he is an element, a realm, a cosmos. He is man in extremis, fencing desperately and gal lantly on the rim of an abyss called fate. To watch him is to be chilled and electrified by the destiny...
...Geoffrey Chaucer. He regarded sex as one of God's blessings. His devout and lusty pilgrims wending their garrulous way to Canterbury have an easy intimacy with natural odors, natural functions and the natural affections of men and women. The seamless unity of faith and flesh creates an abyss between the 14th century and the 20th. Chau cer's people are not paralyzed by self-consciousness in the act of love. They possess none of modern man's neurasthenic haste to import trouble in paradise. They export...
...wives into the universal cavern into the mathematical abyss, to find us-and return...
Here is sex, closely linked to creativity, as a solitary descent into an abyss; here is sex as a warlike self-assertion "against much of life and most of society"; here is an onanistic vision of sex as defiance of onanism...
...Nixon had finally acquired some of the dignity of the old athlete and the old con -he had taken punishment, he knew the detailed schedule of pain in a real loss, there was an attentiveness in his eyes which gave offer of some knowledge of the abyss, even the kind of gentleness which ex-drunkards attain after years...