limbum

Updated: May 9, 2025

Alas! we have passed out of the world into limbum patrum, and the region of ineffectuality and incompleteness. The only cultivators here, and through thousands of acres in the North of Devon, are the rook and mole: and yet the land is rich enough the fat deep crumbling of the shale and ironstone returning year by year into the mud, from whence it hardened ages since.

Charles Kingsley - Prose Idylls, New and Old