engimatical

Updated: June 23, 2025

Her head, wrapped in a blue kerchief, was set in a golden glory, and she stared out, hieratic and wild-looking, with white, wide-open eyes. And this engimatical Ethiop had on her knees a black infant whose eyes, in the same way, stood out like snowballs from the dusky face.

J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans - The Cathedral