Goddamnit, Madness. You must get so much pleasure from picking random passages, bolding bits, and watching us scuttle about trying to make sense of it.
OK, well here goes: that must mean the ark is big, really big, like so fucking big you could hides something just monstrously fucking large in it, like a land-shark the size of a small moon. That's what's going to eat the Great Ordeal.