  The way spacetime behaves as one approaches a spacelike singularity is
re-investigated. We find a simple twistorial presentation that includes and
simplifies the classic work of Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz as well as
the more recent results of Damour, Henneaux and Nicolai. We speculate on the
application of our technique to the E{10} programme of M-theory.
