In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph.
The long descent had ended. The terrifying blackness which had seized and swallowed up the others was gone, and now I was alone. Before me lay nothing, so vast, complete, unchanging, that I cannot possibly describe it. Words are for forms or ideas, yet this was neither. Color, shape, size, dimension, notion, expression- all were lacking, but still it possessed some strange positivism that attracted and drew me into its midst
