world-in-world

Updated: May 8, 2025

Along beside it ever runs that dark and haunting echo; that shadowy world-in-world with its accusing silence, its emphatic self-sufficiency. Mrs. Cresswell at first demurred. She thought of Elspeth's cabin: the dirt, the smell, the squalor: of course, this would be different; but well, Mrs. Cresswell had little inclination for slumming.

W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois - The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel