Inside there was only an enormous, transparent block with infinite internal needles in which the light of the sunset was broken into colored stars
Some extra information:
1. This is the description by a curious person who is living in an isolated village, unfamiliar with what Science has achieved in other parts of the world.
2. What is being described here is something most of us come across almost daily.
Source: Book titled 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel García Márquez
I've finished only the first two chapters of the book but it looks to be a MUST-MUST read.
