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... He seeks for a foothold in the grass as a symbol of the transience of life and looks into the abyss opening before him—the abyss of death ... With her right hand she points either at the abyss or at the flowers bordering it ... In contrast to the men, who gaze either at the abyss or into the distance, she communicates with the other figures—whether she feels threatened by the abyss ...
... In heraldry, the abyss is the middle of an escutcheon. ...
... The Forgotten God is the Lord of the Abyss and main antagonist in the expansion, Raising Hell ... erasing his existence from the minds of the mortal residents and banished him to the Abyss ... his spell by not only punishing the deceased, but by also opening Abyss Gates to lure in living mortals and use their suffering as well to claw himself back ...
... The character of Abyss related to the X-Men titles has been adapted for use in the video game X-Men Legends II Rise of Apocalypse ...
Famous quotes containing the word abyss:
“The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not menstrual blood per se which disturbs the imagination—unstanchable as that red flood may be—but rather the albumen in the blood, the uterine shreds, placental jellyfish of the female sea. This is the chthonian matrix from which we rose. We have an evolutionary revulsion from slime, our site of biologic origins. Every month, it is woman’s fate to face the abyss of time and being, the abyss which is herself.”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)
“Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)