The word “interminable” means
endless, annoying and hard to bare. They use this word in The Time Machine when
the time traveler goes off into his ‘interminable’ voyage. “So that it was the Psychologist
who sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage.” The word
unfathomable means too deep or impossible to be measured. “Looking at these stars suddenly
dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of
their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements
out of the unknown past into the unknown future.” The word Steatite
means a soft heavy compact variety of talc having a soapy feel; used to make
hearths, tabletops and ornaments. “In another place was a vast
array of idols – Polynesian, Mexican, Grecian, Phoenician, every country on
earth I should think. And here, yielding to an irresistible impulse, I wrote my
name upon the nose of a steatite [soapstone] monster from South America that
particularly took my fancy.”
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