“No words in our language can describe them!” [Chalmers] spoke in a harsh whisper. “They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on the ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple – these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.”
– Frank Belknap Long, The Hounds of Tindalos
