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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
advancing
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
Algernon
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
all
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
alonenounUS /alone/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
beauxiliary verbUS /biː/
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
beings
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
black
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Blackwood
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
Boston
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
called
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
caught
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
Clay
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
conceivably
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
consciousness
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
contents
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
correlate
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
far
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
flying
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
Footnote
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
forms
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
FoundnounUS /found/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
Francis
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
gods
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
greatnounUS /great/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
Horror
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
hugely
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
human
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
humanity
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
IpronounUS /aɪ/
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
ignorance
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
inability
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
infinity
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
island
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
itsdeterminerUS /ɪts/
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
kinds
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
late
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
legend
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
live
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
longnounUS /long/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
manifested
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
maymodal verbUS /meɪ/
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
meant
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
memorynounUS /ˈmem.ər.i/
The faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information and knowledge.
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
merciful
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
midst
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
mindnounUS /mind/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
monsters
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
most
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
mythical
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
notadverbUS /nɑːt/
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
OfprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
orconjunctionUS /ɔːr/
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
papers
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
perhaps
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
period
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
placid
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
poetry
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
powersnounUS /powers/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
remote
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
seas
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
shapes
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/
used to say what is right, expected, or advisable
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
sinceprepositionUS /sɪns/
from a time in the past until now
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
sorts
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
suchdeterminerUS /sʌtʃ/
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
survival
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
thedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
thempronounUS /ðem/
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
there
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
thingnounUS /thing/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
thinknounUS /think/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Thurston
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
tide
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
voyage
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From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
Wayland
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From this reading --_Algernon Blackwood._ [Footnote 1: Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston.]
WepronounUS /wiː/
the speaker together with one or more other people
From this reading We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
whenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
withdrawn
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From this reading "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ... forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds...."
world
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From this reading The Horror in Clay._ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
