The Cubit

The 2012 Trilogy I

Peter Galarneau, Jr.

INTRODUCTION

I Was There... And So Were You

Peter Galarneau, Jr.III

It was near midnight on December 31, 1999. I’ll never forget it. Beyond thinking about Prince and how he wanted to“Party Like It’s 1999,” I could not assure myself that all of thelights would not go out, that all of the computers would not

shut down, that Mankind would not, in the next ve minutes,nd itself without the electronic means to support itself. TheComputers would nally win. And my poor ass, along with

thousands of others, standing dazed on, or near, the RobertoClemente Bridge in Pittsburgh, would become nothingmore than statistics. In all of my well-reasoned, left-brainedconglomerations of experiences, I still imagined, on that starrynight, that life was going to change in some dramatic way thatmade all of the idiotic soothsayers…intelligent.Didn’t we all?If the clock turning “00” would have been the end of the world, then all of us—me, my wife, my brother-in-law,everyone I cared about (which suddenly included a coupleof thousand people standing on a bridge)—would have meta collective, untimely death, one that had been invented byman, accelerated by man and promulgated by the informationchannels that man had crafted.

And that got me thinking…about End Times, about allthe End Times that had already ended. You know, like the

ones said to be predicted by Revelation. Names such as Joseph

Smith, William Miller, The Watchtower Society, Herbert W.