Around daybreak on June 22, Lu Youbing awoke to the screams of her brother-in-law and the sickening sensation of the earth collapsing.
They are locales where the distance between heaven and earth collapses and we're able to catch glimpses of the divine, or the transcendent or, as I like to think of it, the Infinite Whatever.
In the end it gets so compact that if a star the size of the earth collapsed into a black hole, its matter space would have a radius of less than 9mm.
"We didn't all see Princess Diana die, but in excess of a million New Yorkers watched with their own eyes as two of the largest man-made structures on earth collapsed, knowing that many people were dying as they watched".
In my mind, I saw the walls of the earth collapsing around us like the pillars of the Temple of Dagon, the walls of our pit crumbling all around us, and we, Samson-like in our decline, crumbling along with the walls".
They figured out what was really going on only after the earth had collapsed beneath them.
Mr. LoBasso plunged into the cesspool while walking in his backyard on Monday, and it took nearly 18 hours to recover his body because the earth kept collapsing into the crater.
Many of these ads relied on the kind of comparisons normally used in documentaries about prehistory, the kind where you are told that if the history of the earth was collapsed into 24 hours, mankind has only been around long enough to fry an egg.
In spots, the earth has collapsed into the waters below, forming cenotes, deep wells of gin-clear water that provide an entry into the surreal underworld.
Thousands of tonnes of earth have collapsed on to the beach from one of the UK's most popular coastal paths.
