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Updated: June 6, 2025
The earth itself seemed far away, and he was toiling among vastnesses, himself a giant with colossal frame and huge, sprawling limbs. It was like a gruesome vision of the night, when the body is an elusive, stupendous mass that falls into space after a confused struggle with immensities. It was all mechanical, vague, almost numb, this effort to overcome a mountain.
The great Sorceress The forest seen from above A struggle for life The crimes of plants Everlasting twilight Births and deaths Concerts by forest vocalists The "durian" The "ple-lok" Vastnesses unexplored by science Treasures intact Para Rubber The Samaritans of the jungle The forest and its history.
Cries echoed from her, from the great stockade. The Master gave her all the lift the farthest wrench of the levers would thrust on her. The gate was almost shut now would she clear it? Below, track, earth, everything was spinning in and in. Ahead, above, yawned vastnesses. The Master could no longer see the gate. A second of taut thrill Crash! The Nissr quivered, staggered, yawed away.
Any of those trackless vastnesses to the eastward might hide a battalion of men for months; therefore, in case they had run, what hope of finding them? These and other facts I put before my friends while they listened in glum silence indeed, with hardly a move except the pipes carried mechanically to their lips or down.
Perhaps it would have been harder to reduce them to slavery and hold them in bondage when they had a vast continent before them, where they could hide in the vastnesses of its mountains or the seclusion of its forests, than it was for white men to visit the coasts of Africa and, with their superior knowledge, obtain cargoes of slaves, bring them across the ocean, hem them in on the plantations, and surround them with a pall of dense ignorance."
The extent of our mental vision expanded. We heard of other mountains far beyond these farthest mountains whose almost unexplored vastnesses contained great forests, mighty valleys, strong water-courses, beautiful hanging-meadows, deep cañons of granite, eternal snows, mountains so extended, so wonderful, that their secrets offered whole summers of solitary exploration.
His first foot-gear was moccasins, his first taffy the tallow from a moose. His first generalizations were that the world was composed of great wastes and white vastnesses, and populated with Indians and white hunters like his father. A town was a cluster of deer-skin lodges; a trading-post a seat of civilization; and a factor God Almighty Himself.
The gangway still inclined downward towards black vastnesses, towards shadows and mysteries and inconceivable things, into which Redwood went slowly with reluctant footsteps and Cossar with a confident stride.... Redwood's thoughts were busy. The two men passed into the completest darkness, and Cossar took his companion's wrist. They went now slowly perforce. Redwood was moved to speak.
During the next nine days I worked with a fever on me, and a map of London before me. There were places in that city! secrets, vastnesses, horrors! In the wine-vaults at London Docks was a vat which must certainly have contained between twenty and thirty thousand gallons: and with dancing heart I laid a train there; the tobacco-warehouse must have covered eighty acres: and there I laid a fuse.
Our horizon lies there, to prevent our vision going further; but from some higher time-eminence in the future, we shall see it emerge again in the backward vastnesses of pre-history; again and again. If I could imagine it otherwise, I would say so. Almost suddenly, during Aeschylus' lifetime, another Greek Art came into being.
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