Bottomless pit is a good description. I was totally enamored with Velikovsky from ‘67 through ‘71. I went to see him at a conference at Lewis & Clark College in Portland back then. His books were thrilling to read and he was probably a genius. He could be correct in his reinterpretation of Egyptian history, but I no longer believe that his catastrophes happened in the way he posited in historic time, or that his theories offer much to explain human history. Too much detail work has been done by diligent geologists, tree ring and carbon 14 experts, geneticists and historical anthropologists since 1950 that confirms a more uniformitarian interpretation of history and geology.