A friend of mine in the audience tonight — he said, “I have this really, really big dream: my wife and I, and here we are, and the world is coming to an end.” The whole thing is coming to an end — it began to shake, a wind, an unearthly wind came up, and then the rays, like a flood, and then the earth is shaking, and I said to myself, “well, the earth has gone off its orbit.” I wasn’t afraid of death, and my wife wasn’t afraid of death, but I thought the whole thing was simply coming apart and coming to an end.1183 ¶24