With audacious strength Pan showed us why panic was named after him: he gave us the fright of our lives, as if we had become overly familiar and not been sufficiently respectful of his divinity. Out of nowhere an angry puppeteer abruptly pulled up my bride’s hand, her eyes shot full of frightened tears, and—having wanted only to please her, chasing after the American dream of a glorious existence like an obedient old sheepdog—I listened, stunned, as she spoke in tongues. Pan dispensed with the slowness of the alphabet and spoke directly through her in a deep, eerie growl, mocking her longing
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