Yea, the first half of pihkal is one of the best reads ive seen, very good indeed.
Hows this for weird shit, a month or so ago i was tripping, and right at the peak while i was sitting here talking to people, right outside my window in the backyard the brightest light flashed and damn near the loudest thing ive ever heard, i thought it was a bomb, i thought my backyard had blown up, literally. Turns out it was lightening of some form, and it was so close and so strong, it turned my screen purple from the EM field, i had to hit degauss to correct it.
Needless to say, a calm person realizes this was lightening
I however, knew the truth, the aliens had landed with a fiery and loud 'hello, this is our planet now', and i grabbed the key to the gun safe (yes i try to hide it or throw it somewhere i wont bother looking for it, didnt work this time), so i grab my .25 handgun and go searching for the aliens, peeking around each corner, they HAD to be in the house by now so i turned all the lights off and slowly cleared each room, eventually i had the house secure so i started searching the backyard, scanning the treeline for eyes, looking up in the trees waiting for one of them to land on me right when i looked up, systematically scanning the roof, they were hiding! they were running to the side of the roof i couldnt see, every time i moved!
Its lucky there was no corn in the field next to me or i would have gone on a rampage through it like in Signs.