Turning to cheer a worried wardmate, Kennedy announced they had nothing to fear — only to change his mind an instant later when bullets started coming through the ceiling.

And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.

MY copy of the Qu'ran says that this would be a serious sin (to lie against God by imputing deception to Him)! Does this mean that Yahya is a pseudomuslim?

Soon the formications and muscular debility returned, not alone, but accompanied with painful cramps and startlings in the feet and calves of the legs.