There was an earthquake someplace? ... What earthquake?

were in Japan the year before, and he had always had [sic] hoped there would be an earthquake that he could feel, and there wasn't any. And here was the big Long Beach earthquake, and they didn't feel it!

It is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams...Through it, God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow from it: like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance, and cause a light heretofore unknown to shine amongst men.

'Arachnophobia' was what kept him from doing it,

What do you say about our two dumbbells?

The streets were full of destruction and rubble, and this town I'd never liked, with its stupid people, stupid streets, and stupid houses, was now unrecognisable, now it had a truly unique beauty, and scantily-clad women traversed it like ghosts. A twelve-storey building in the city centre had totally collapsed. Caught up in her bed sheets, a woman who had fallen from the top floor found herself alive and alone on the pavement. Her husband had been thrown out of bed. From now on she would sleep forever, since reality was now as extraordinary as dreams.