# Quote — Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go

> The world took a shape which he could grasp, though he could not comprehend it. Above him, on both sides, below him, as far as he could see, bodies floated. They were arranged in vertical and horizontal rows. The up-and-down ranks were separated by red rods, slender as broomsticks, one of which was twelve inches from the feet of the sleepers and the other twelve inches from their heads. Each body was spaced about six feet from the body above and below and on each side.
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> The rods came up from an abyss without bottom and soared into an abyss without ceiling. That grayness into which the rods and the bodies, up and down, right and left, disappeared was neither the sky nor the earth. There was nothing in the distance except the lackluster of infinity.

- Author: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md)
- Book: [To Your Scattered Bodies Go](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go.md)
- Page: 3
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Jos%C3%A9_Farmer#To_Your_Scattered_Bodies_Go_(1971)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/to-your-scattered-bodies-go/the-world-took

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