Let me tell you about this Black Hole...as you walk down Pedro Clisante oblivious to your surroundings, and you get within close range of the Black Hole, you experience a buffering effect (due to the Black Hole's gravity). It increases the closer you get. People don't realize neither the strength nor the gravitational pull of the Black Hole, because, well, let's face it, most people walking down Pedro Clisante at night are so inebriated that they are no longer on this planet. Most people do not even realize the gravity-free zone around the Black Hole is artificial.
Slipping inside the Black Hole (before the sidewalk was repaired) one was lost sometimes up to three days as one tries to navigate out of it's gravitational pull. Fortunately, I was only lost for a few days before being pulled out of the Black Hole and rescued---CPR was needed, and then heart defibrillators were used as well. People don't realize how big, how strong, and how over-whelming the Black Hole can be. People also don't realize how much they are drawn into the Black Hole--an abyss from which no one can escape. I know, I've been lost in the hole many, many times, over the years--going back to the summer of 78--and yet i keep getting drawn back into it...it's become a sort of sanctuary of mine.
Some things are just bigger and stronger than us...The Black Hole is one of these things.
Frank