everblack

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An evergreen tree that has very dark, colorless leaves or needles.

   • Vegetation of all kinds is scanty in the central parts of London, and evergreens merely degenerate into everblacks and die.
   • For the Trolls and the Orcs, this was an irreversible descent, into a moral climate of all winter and a montonous landscape of everblacks.
2. 2

   A desolate environment without any source of light, such as that found in deep space.

   • But here in the everblack, where natural laws were the only ones that mattered, he belonged to the cosmos — which could not be bought off or influenced, and which would take him back into itself in OH, MIRANDA!
   • don't go there/ but keep your heart beating/ still a while/ don't leave me in the everblack /blacker than dark without you
   • He became dust, but was still conscious, enduring as the stars finally aged and new ones were born, and he became part of the unfeeling everblack, then nothing.

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