transition-blank

Updated: May 12, 2025

He may have slept meanwhile, though "sleep," he says, involving loss of consciousness, seemed no right description. A sense of interval there was at any rate, a "transition-blank," whatever that may mean he phrased it in the writing. And, watching the rhododendron forest a hundred yards below, he saw it move. Through the dim light this movement passed and ran, here, there, and everywhere.

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur