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The Wanderer showed Earth its yin-yang face for a fifth tiht sky For the ists at the South Pole International Observation Station, deep in the unbroken night of the Southern Hemisphere&039;s winter, the Wanderer hadalways the sa once e and Marie Byrd Land Great green auroras sprang frohtily restimulated some supernatural beliefs and many sorts of mania

In India, which had thus far escaped the severer earthquakes and suffered ations in nightlong rites Soed by the serpent Brahht mark the dawn of a new kalpa

In South Africa it beca against the Boers

In Protestant countries the Book of Revelation was searched through in thousands of Bibles never before read or even opened

In Rome the new Pope, as a Jesuit-trained astronomer, combatted superstitious interpretations of events, while the paparazzi found films and lenses for their cameras which would enable the at the Wanderer or background by it - as Ostia fought flood, and the new Mediterranean tides pushed up the Tiber

In Egypt a felinoid being landing frooddess Bast by an expatriate British theosophist, and the cult of cat-worship got off to a new beginning According to the theosophist, the Wanderer itself was Bast&039;s destructive twin: Sekhet, the Eye of Ra

There was an odd echo of this developerishka&039;s ers, lions, leopards, and other large felines Some of the beasts appeared in Left Bank cafes A siarten in Berlin, where the anie to think that Don Merrialy now in his little cabin aboard the Wanderer, just as Paul was sleeping as soundly aboard Tigerishka&039;s saucer

While the Wanderer caused numerous panics and outbursts of mania, its sudden appearance and the catastrophes attendant on it acted in other instances as a sort of shock therapy There were literal outbursts of sanity in the violent wards ofthe impossible made real, and even nurses and doctors terrified by it, satisfied some deep need in psychotics And private neuroses and psychoses becaement

On others the Wanderer bestowed a last-ainst it As Fritz Scher, noaist-deep in salt water, looked out of thein the Tidal Institute at Ha toward dawn, the clouds lifted a little in the west like a curtain half drawn up, and frolared at his at last cae of water toppled him and carried him back from theAs he clutched futilely at the sleek sides of the tide-predictingit, he used his last breaths to cry out over and over: "Multiply everything by eighty!"

Barbara Katz felt the bed under her move a little on its casters, as the dark, third-floor hotel roo it She mastered the impulse to jump up and she pressed closer to old KKK, then reached her hand across hio the old man had shaken with a chill This afternoon it had been the heat that had troubled hi across Florida, it was the cold

Benjy, standing at the , his face ghostly in the Wanderer-light, reported: "Water over first-floor s and pressing us hard Here co us? Sort of crunchy"

"Get in you cot, Benjy, and get soo, it go Water knock to come in, you cain&039;t tell it, &039;Stay out!&039; "

"I ain&039;t got your calm, Hes," he told her "I should&039;ve stayed with the car, make sure they leave it on top the h"

"They&039;d better not have fully over her shoulder "That parking place was part of the five thousand we&039;re paying for this room"

Frohost of her giggle: "I wonder those skinflints re the cash box upstairs Else she be washed away sho!"

"Quiet," Hester called "Benjy, get in you cot"

"Where&039;s the attraction?" he asked pensively froot to sleep with the Old Man, help keep him warm And that pancake makeup and powder Miss Barbara put on my face itch it"

"Quit bellyachin&039;, darkie," Hester told hihtening Don&039;tto please With that and a thousand-dollar bill, you get anywhere"

Benjy said, the pale light in his eyes now as he lifted theain He spin fast"

The room rocked Timbers creaked Benjy announced: "Water up another band&039;s width See"

Helen raised up "You think we should - " she began in a tight, breathy voice

"Quiet!" Hester coot to be quiet now, and lie down We enjoyin&039; five thousand dollars Benjy, you tell me when that water up to you neck - and not before! Good night"

In the dark Barbara thought of the Sebring race course a mile off, and all those fine-tuned motors in their pits under the salt sea, the oil washed away Or had they been sreen-yellow-silver pack? She pictured outboards racing the Sebring course She pictured the drowned rockets a hundred roaned faintly andBarbara stroked his papery, furrowed cheek, but he kept on ers, which he kept close to his chest as one praying, orking a little She reached down the bed and found the fashion doll in its black lace underwear and laid it in them He quieted She smiled