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abysm

 (n): a bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
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5 months ago yarb said:

"I resolved to run on for one glimpse of the still remoter future - one peep into the deeper abysm of time - and then to return to you and my own epoch."

- Wells, The Time Machine

about 1 year ago skipvia said:

The flabby wine-skin of his brain
Yields to some pathologic strain,
And voids from its unstored abysm
The driblet of an aphorism.

Ambrose Bierce, The Mad Philosopher

I'm never opening my mouth in front of my class again.

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