The universe may change but not me, I thought with a certain sad vanity.

Biologists hardly did any better at recognizing that their universe had changed.

The first sand touched the bot- tom- And the universe changed.

He does not understand how the universe has changed around him.

He yawned again, remembering the evening his universe had changed.

From that day on, we knew that the universe had changed.

The first sand touched the bottom- And the universe changed.

From one second to the next the entire universe changed.

Well, and the universe had changed, and he with it.

The universe may change, but the desert does not.