From the stage, where perception was distorted by the glaring lights and the darkness beyond, the crowd looked less like individual bodies than a fluid whole. The wave effect produced by the mass contortions resembled an upset, neurotic ocean, incapable of deciding which forces to obey, wind, moon or gravity.

Adrian and Diana were singing a song of reconciliation, Diana hitting her hip with the flat of her palm in time to the music. She had abandoned her keyboards in favor of a mike center stage, and an improvement in musical quality was the result.