Word: fathoming
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...himself up from the ruins, he does not even know quite what the ruins are. He feels "guilty," "lost in despair," but he cannot understand why. He turns on his tubercular wife who had renounced her family and her Jewish faith for the love of him, and he cannot fathom the reason for the disappearance of his own passionate devotion to her. He just feels "empty" and runs to the company of the Lebedevs, who are themselves living superficial existences and are unable to understand one another. It is interesting that the only person who can temporarily awake these creatures...
Exactly which door is supposed to be the strange one is hard to fathom; probably it is the one in the RKO Boston, which assuredly has occult powers if it lures anyone in from the peace and quiet of Washington Street...
...later, though he still thought the claims of the disciples absurd, Barabbas found himself wandering through the alleyways of the lower city, where the new faith flourished among the poor. Barabbas liked to hear them talk about their queer doctrines-love one another, they said. He could not fathom it, but he wanted to hear...
...lined up like pins in an alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display with the aurora borealis and a couple of sunsets to boot." An hour later, Skipper Fluckey noted in his log: "Crossed the 20 fathom curve with a sigh ... However, life begins at 40 fathoms...
...tears, Mother Nightingale had confided to a friend: "We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan." It was no swan, as Lytton Strachey noted in his famous biographical essay, "it was an eagle." But Strachey-could never fathom Miss Nightingale either, because he himself, a brilliant and heretical writer, put no stock in God or goodness. The best Strachey could do was to guess that Florence Nightingale was in the clutch of a demonic spirit...