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• Across the abyss.
• When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise.
  She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder....
• It stared back at me, Escher-like. -- David Aylesworth
• I had a feeling once about mathematics -- that I saw it all.
  Depth beyond depth was revealed to me -- the Byss and the Abyss....
• Man looks into the abyss, and sees himself.
• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
  -- H. P. Lovecraf...
• Repetition of the Abysmal. In the abyss one falls into a pit. Misfortune.
• The abyss is not filled to overflowing, It is filled only to the rim. No blame.
• In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French
  I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)...