From Wizard's posting, "But he had never seen anything nearly as chilling as what lay ahead of him in the gyre."
Not to detract from the seriousness of the subject, but----gyre? The last time I saw it used:
"Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
All mimsy were the borogoves
And the mome raths outgrabe."