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You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."What monsters may they be?"Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?

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All right, my hope__ut I am not saying the rest of it__ have something you need to feel.__he feigned the sound of outrage. __ut we barely know each other, sir!__e laughed softly. __ut you must hold it in your hand and feel it change,_ he urged, in her ear. __ insist. I can wait no longer.__he knew they were on a serious subject, but the flutter of his breath on her skin, the low drawl of his words__eat raced along all her nerve endings. __ill I like it?___ell, I do have to apologize for its size. It is rather small._ And with that, he pressed something rather small into her hand.

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Sherry Thomas

The Perilous Sea