Read the opening lines from neil degrasse tyson’s “death by black hole.” without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole. where else in the universe can you lose your life by being ripped apart atom by atom? read the beginning stanza from billy collins’s “man listening to disc.” this is not bad— ambling along 44th street with sonny rollins for company, his music flowing through the soft calipers of these earphones, the beginnings of these two pieces are similar because they both