Within ten minutes, pain began radiating from his stung finger. “I was tortured by pains beyond measure, and yet the pain was still growing more intense…I tried to sit down, to lie on the ground, to stand still. The pain would not let me. I had to move on, to run about. It is a strange experience recognizing quite lucidly that nothing fatal has happened to oneself, and feeling at the same time, that this was much worse than anything previous. In fact, it is just short of driving oneself completely mad.”