He continued: "And there's nothing like a DDS rally, with the President present. We have collective ecstasy, an orgy, the ultimate high but without actual sex." He reflected. "Well, it's not quite that. It's like we are all collectively making love to him, and through him to one another. You know, like the priest says at Mass, "through Him and in Him and with Him." I tried to recall the Latin from my prehistoric days as an altar boy, but he beat me to it: “Per ipsum, et cum ipso, et in ipso.” Wow! Did this fellow graduate from that place on Katipunan? I asked myself.