"...I am going to tell you a story. And I am going to hold you here and not with my hand nor with my 'glittering eye' but by the very power of what I have to tell you and how I choose to tell it. I am going to show you what I saw and heard and smelled and tasted and felt. And I am going to tell you what it is like to be abandoned by God and by man and of the true nature of loneliness and of the preciousness in life. And I am going to do it in such a way that your life will never again be the sam