Words of the day: "horror vacui" – a fear of emptiness or nothingness, that leads as a protective counter-impulse to the filling of space with detail, surface with clutter, & time with busy-ness (Latin). In Greek, kenophobia.
Engraving by Jean Duvet, Fall of Babylon (1555) pic.twitter.com/XtRy2peFmk— Robert Macfarlane (@RobGMacfarlane) November 7, 2018
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