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It was as if I was looking into very deep water and seeing deep green coral or a coiled octopus in dark green and white—very deep. This stuff streaming out from the centre is just surface thought, but this was a deep thought. It impressed me a good deal psychologically like Jung’s image—it has intrinsic signifi cance or archetypal quality. The marble is deep; the ferns are deeper, but this was miles underneath it all. . . . A very unusual effect. It started as centrifugal motion, then the nucleus began to have an odd look and a little irregular snowfl ake began to form at “marble” depth and this grew and fi lled the whole fi eld with salmon-pink ground bearing repeated identical irregular snowfl akes. These then all melted into the impression of a THING! These small snowfl akes melted into one large snowfl ake which became alive; it turned into a living creature—slightly eerie—like Quattermass.