High Rankin - Terrible Reality lyrics

Without knowing what futurism is like
Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city
For instead of describing any definite structure or building
He dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces
Surfaces too great to belong to any thing right or proper for this earth
And impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs

I mention his talk about angles
Because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams
He had said that the geometry of the dream place he saw was abnormal
Non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres
And dimensions apart from ours
Now an unlettered sea-man felt the same thing
Whilst gazing at the terrible reality
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Without knowing what futurism is like
Johansen achieved something very close to it when he spoke of the city
For instead of describing any definite structure or building
He dwells only on broad impressions of vast angles and stone surfaces
Surfaces too great to belong to any thing right or proper for this earth
And impious with horrible images and hieroglyphs
I mention his talk about angles
Because it suggests something Wilcox had told me of his awful dreams
He had said that the geometry of the dream place he saw was abnormal
Non-Euclidean, and loathsomely redolent of spheres
And dimensions apart from ours
Now an unlettered sea-man felt the same thing
Whilst gazing at the terrible reality