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Jefferies, Richard - The Story of my Heart - The abyss
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The Story of my Heart – Richard Jefferies
By the sea, aware of the sun overhead and the blue heaven, I feel that there is nothing between me and space. This is the verge of a gulf, and a tangent from my feet goes straight unchecked into the unknown. It is the edge of the abyss as much as if the earth were cut away in a sheer fall of 8,000 miles to the sky beneath, thence a hollow to the stars. Looking straight out is looking straight down; the eye glance gradually departs from the sea level, and rising as that falls, enters the hollow of heaven. It is gazing along the face of a vast precipice into the hollow space which is nameless