 And it was flailing in waves, and the sound of the waves was deafening. So one of my friends, speaking at the volume of the tone that you and I are talking right now, named Mary Payne, turned to another friend of ours who was on the trip and said, Why didn't he listen? I told him it was too dangerous. Why did he go out anyway? And I told her, from wherever I was, of a kind of vast space,