For instance, I particularly feel ill at ease when close to (never mind being in) black water. By black I mean water that is so deep that the bottom doesn't reflect up to the surface and therefore seems bottomless. Scottish lochs in particular, because the sides of the mountains that slip into them often mean there is no beach or gradual sloping into the water, getting slowly deeper. The water is very deep, and very black from its edge. Scary.
The flip side of feeling unsettled in these environments is that on the surface everything is strangely calm and beautiful – everything is fine so long as you are not in the water.
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