I looked dizzily, and beheld a wide expanse of ocean, whose waters wore so inky a hue as to bring at once to my mind the Nubian geographer's account of the Mare Tenebrarum.

If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.

at the pointy end of the plane

Luteic acid is the lactone and ellagic acid is the dilactone of hexahydroxydiphenic acid.