More than 400 refugees and migrants have disappeared so far in 2016 while crossing the Mediterranean to Europe.
You might think that these misadventures would be some sort of reality check, fate's way of telling architects that they have disappeared so far into their shape-making fantasies that they fail to spot the bleeding obvious when it is staring them in the face.
The praise he received made him self-assured and complacent; in 2001, he recalled, "When I did Hear My Song, I disappeared so far up my own arse afterwards.
With enough days in a row of silence, we can disappear so far behind our choices to keep our mouths tightly shut that we forget how good we've got it in our bubble.
The Psalmist, addressing God, prays exquisitely for "the mercy of your attention," and is made, as in Psalm 22, to sound like George Herbert, an Anglican rather than a Jew, but not a bad model for a pious poetry: "Lord, My Lord, you disappear / so far away / unpierced by my cry".
On Tuesday, a PSNI spokesperson told the BBC that legislation providing anonymity to anyone passing information on the disappeared would remain only so far as the commission created to locate their bodies was concerned.
She has spent much of her career so far chronicling disappearing ways of life in Britain and in the world's poorer countries.
Allison Scola, a budding singer-songwriter who lived in the East Village before moving to Seaman Avenue, found her initial skepticism at being so far north disappearing when she saw so many musicians living in the area.
My eye could only follow it so far before it disappeared behind a fence and onto private property.
It slashes everywhere into deep ravines, so far down that they disappear, that's how far down they go.
