"...I found myself seemingly in conversation with an entity that identified
 itself as "One of the Nine Dukes," and then upon closer interrogation as
 "Asmoday."  Its "body," when I asked it to show me what it looked like,
 consisted of a shifting and shimmering latticework of repeated spider
 motifs, all identical but at different scales.  These, while keeping their 
 colouring consistent, appeared to be constantly turning themselves inside
 out through a spatial dimension that was foreign to me, becoming on the
 reverse a similar shifting lattice, this time with a reiterated lizard
 motif.  This would turn itself inside out and become the mesh of spiders
 again, and so on.  As a constant background to this effect, there was a
 beautiful pattern composed of peackock's-tail eyes.  The entire thing was
 like a 360-degree sphere or field of presence that surrounded my head,
 moving and speaking lucidly to me (and with great politeness and charm,
 it must be said)."
    -- Alan Moore in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_