"It was just a colour out of spacea frightful messenger from unformed realms o..." - from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

It was just a colour out of spacea frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it

— from realms whose mere existence stuns the brain and numbs us with the black extra-cosmic gulfs it throws open before our frenzied eyes.

H.P. Lovecraft The Colour Out of Space and others

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