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Probably hundreds of thousands of years separated this underpopulated, desertic world from the one where he used to live.

From The Guardian • May 29, 2013

Mr. Eliot has had a vision, as is well known, of 'the cactus land,' of a parched, desertic world�not of a dark so much as of an ash-grey age�in which the springs of life dried.

From Time Magazine Archive