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Phantasmagoric refers to a series, or waves, of rapidly changing elements, both real and imaginary, pulsing through scenes - like dreams adrift with specters and imaginary spirits.
While the objects around me - while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which . . . I had been accustomed from my infancy . . . I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.
From Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.
While the objects around me - while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which . . . I had been accustomed from my infancy . . . I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.
From Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher.