pavilion-pillars

Updated: May 6, 2025

First the nature of the ebon opacities, blocking out the spaces between the pavilion-pillars or covering their tops like roofs, These were magnetic fields, light absorbers, negativing the vibrations of radiance; literally screens of electric force which formed as impervious a barrier to light as would have screens of steel. They instantaneously made night appear in a place where no night was.

Abraham Merritt - The Moon Pool