The Third Doom: Spider's Dreams"What is the fear?" I asked.I don’t know. I don’t know if I know in the dreams. I just alwaysfeel afraid. It’s this looming terror of impending catastrophe.”“I don’t think catastrophe is impendinganymore,” I said.“Oh, it is, Lou,” she said. “It is. This isonly a small step along the way, just a small thing. The rose isstill unfolding, a thousand petals and every one scribed withtragedy, with enough grief to end the world. You want to know whatthe fear is? It’s that there is no seed at the center of this rose,the petals will just keep unfolding endlessly into the future.”