Both Uses of
abyss
in
Death and the King's Horseman
- I needed you as the abyss across which my body must be drawn, I filled it with earth and dropped my seed in it at the moment of preparedness for my crossing.†
Chpt 5 *abyss = a hole or dropoff so deep the bottom cannot be seen -- often used figuratively to imply a frightening bottomless pit
- You were the final gift of the living to their emissary to the land of the ancestors, and perhaps your warmth and youth brought new insights of this world to me and turned my feet leaden on this side of the abyss.†
Chpt 5