"He possessed little talent and less inclination for those recondite mathematical calculations which form so large a part of orthodox astronomy; but he had an intuitional grasp of the heavenly immensutudes, a mystic sensitivity toward all that is far off in space." Clark Ashton Smith, The Planet of the Dead.
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eddytheflow commented on the word crepitation
But after the gay evening there came again the insidious approach, the oblique shuffle, that creeping up, and that pause, and the resumed crepitation
-Nabokov, Pale Fire
August 25, 2011
eddytheflow commented on the word immensitudes
"He possessed little talent and less inclination for those recondite mathematical calculations which form so large a part of orthodox astronomy; but he had an intuitional grasp of the heavenly immensutudes, a mystic sensitivity toward all that is far off in space." Clark Ashton Smith, The Planet of the Dead.
August 19, 2011