In the distance an enormous black shadow seems to superimpose itself on the darkness.
In person, Anselm Kiefer is much more self-mocking and relaxed than his enormous, heart-of-darkness German history paintings and titanic lead or concrete sculptures might suggest.
To shed light on this enormous stretch of biological darkness, the Joint Genome Institute at the Energy Department has started what it calls a "genomic encyclopedia".
I have a chance to birth this baby through a strong, capable, familiar body that knows how to free my tiny (or enormous) son from the darkness that he is enveloped in.
The incredible people I've met on the road have given me a new sense of strength and courage and an enormous part of the darkness has been lifted.
Each oval chamber was roofed in concentric tiers of stone with, it is thought, a central opening beamed in wood and the whole complex possibly covered by earth, an enormous mound into whose sacred darkness one could penetrate as into the body of Mother Earth herself.
I found him sitting in semi-darkness at an enormous wooden dining table that he used as a desk, a gaunt figure in a silk robe and two matching blue silk scarves, one of which he wore as an ascot, the other as a turban.
(In fact, the darkness was caused by enormous wildfires in Ontario).
Ridgewood's acting police chief, William Corcoran, even recalls an enormous soda machine floating by in the murky darkness like a toy boat in a bathtub.
As his earlier writings have demonstrated, Styron could write with enormous candor about his personal life: in his harrowing 1990 memoir, "Darkness Visible," he recounted his struggles with a depression so debilitating that he contemplated taking his own life.
