un-motherly

Updated: May 2, 2025

And whereas I had before said to myself: 'If now a wave from the Deep has washed over this planetary ship of earth..., I said now: 'A wave but not from the Deep: a wave rather which she had reserved, and has spouted, from her own un-motherly entrails...

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud