“—this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance, a grey mist, in which floated or…”

“—this gave him a not uncommon sensation of his own huge ignorance, a grey mist, in which floated or could be discerned odd glimpses of solid objects, odd bits of glitter of domes or shadows of roofs in the gloom.”

– A. S. Byatt, Possession.