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In the space of a few hours, they went from clannish and taciturn hoarders of the word to expansive and eager disseminators of it. What could have possessed them to choose such an ill timed instant when the failure of the flood was likely to cause non believers to view the group and its dogma as laughable? The crucial event occurred some time during the night of the flood, when it became increasingly clear that the prophecy would not be fulfilled. It was dawning realization that if the spaceship and flood predictions were wrong, so might be the entire belief system on which they rested. Since the only acceptable form of truth had been undercut by physical proof, there was but one way out of