undiaphanous

“But indeed you are very perverse; and through this perplexed undiaphanous element, you do not fall on me like radiant summer rainbows, like floods of sunlight, but with thin piercing radiances which affect me like the light of the stars.”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II

“But indeed you are very perverse; and through this perplexed undiaphanous element, you do not fall on me like radiant summer rainbows, like floods of sunlight, but with thin piercing radiances which affect me like the light of the _stars.”

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.