Verily, wheresoever it is, it is in the abyssal World, where there is neither end nor limit.
"Dialogues on the Supersensual Life"
Jacob Behmen
It ended with definitions of the required strength-of-material and the designs stipulated for cages in zoos for motile fauna, subdivided into flying, marine, and solid-ground creatures: sub-sub-divided into carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores, with the special specifications for enclosures to contain abyssal creatures requiring extreme pressures, and the equipment for maintaining a healthfully re-poisoned atmosphere for creatures from methane planets.
"Sand Doom"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins
Never do I hear that billowing peal but I become aware of a striving and a fluttering in the abyssal part of my ghost,-a sensation as of memories struggling to reach the light beyond the obscurations of a million million deaths and births.
"Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things"
Lafcadio Hearn