“An awful misshapen monster, huge, his eyelight lost.”
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book III, Line 658 (tr. Mandelbaum); of Polyphemus.
“He had never lost that mingled combination of awe and terror that welled up in him when confronted by the routinely huge distances of space.”
— Alastair Reynolds, book Redemption Ark
Source: Redemption Ark (2002), Chapter 8 (p. 129)
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