9.9.99 come and gone, actually coming up to 0909 in a half hour. doom cometh (to them that waits for it…).
676. “But even if in such cases I can’t be mistaken, isn’t it possible that I am drugged?” If I am and if the drug has taken away my consciousness, then I am not now really talking and thinking. I cannot seriously suppose that I am at this moment dreaming. Someone who, dreaming, says “I am dreaming”, even if he speaks audibly in doing so, is no more right than if he said in his dream “it is raining”, while it was in fact raining. Even if his dream were actually connected with the noise of the rain. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
poor Louie, at his death bed, practically, dreaming about the rain, and writing about talking about what he might have been doing or thinking as it rains on him, in bed, dreaming of rain and dying.