What the end of the world will look like

(A sniffly planet earth, as seen from the “Little Devil” Observatory during the second wave of the great flu pandemic.)
The planets are already aligned; the solar pressure gauge shows 2 million atmospheres. The earth is just a little capricious, but that’s nothing: In a moment there will be an explosion and the expected end of the world.
(Czorcik, Piotrków Trybunalski, 1919)