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Milky Way

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Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?

Chapter 42, The Whiteness of the Whale · verse 28

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