For many months afterward, and at many times since, I was swallowed up in the deep fog of grief—what I think of as the void—an emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even to breathe.
It is now 200 times larger than it was in the 21st century, all of the planets and their satellites in our system had been destroyed, swallowed up by an ever expanding red giant sun which now dominates here.
But the third (which rapidly swallowed up the other two) was the grey, gravelly surface of a platform in a country station, and a seat with luggage round it, where they were all sitting as if they had never moved from it.
And thus the first man of the Pequod that mounted the mast to look out for the White Whale, on the White Whale's own peculiar ground; that man was swallowed up in the deep.
The researchers believe that the explosion was a result of an enormous cloud of gas, possibly thousands of times larger than our Sun being swallowed up by a super massive black hole.
But if you've ever broken out in welts from brushing against poison ivy, or seen a telephone pole swallowed up by a Kudzu vine, well, you know plants do things.