schrecklichkeit - E.E. "Doc" Smith

That you can now be called adult does not mean you have achieved your full power, only that you are able to acquire other and larger powers.

I know they shot first, they always do, but how does that change things?

How could he explain beauty, or music, or art, to this . . . this matriarchal savage? How explain cerise to a man born blind? And above all, who had ever heard of having to explain to a woman — to any woman, anywhere in the whole macrocosmic universe — that she in particular was beautiful?