In order to demystify mass suicide, scholars in the 90s engaged themselves to convince people that the spot in the tail of the comet was just a star and that the cult members had been brainwashed with all the lies told by their leader. However, the press kept on publishing articles with sensational and allusive headlines.
Was the end of the world really so close?
Would the terrors of a new medieval period spread all over mankind in a few years time?
Guglielmos mind was racing. He was matching theories, comparing events, combining events. He thought that at the dawn of the year 2000 it would have been much easier to spread panic and turn it into an obsessive psychosis.
After all, in 999AD, a persuasive voice, a public square or a pulpit in a church and a big crowd, hadnt all this been enough to spread the universal belief that the world was about to end?