Mr. Rossi yearns so much to travel through time that he manages to do so with only the power
of his mind, but now he’s traveling is out of control: a series of moments past to present
to future, which keep repeating but never the same.
He found a secondhand copy of J.W. Dunne’s An Experiment with Time and lost sleep for a
week. He copied off the charts from it, Scotch-taped them to his wall; he wrote down his
startling dreams every morning as soon as he awoke. There was a time outside time, Dunne
said, in which to measure time; and a time outside that, in which to measure the time
that measured time, and a time outside that.. . . Why not?
DEBUT
“Extempore,” in Far Out, edited by Damon Knight (Simon and Shuster,
1961).
VARIANTS
Debut. “Extempore,” in Far Out, edited by Damon Knight (Simon and Shuster, 1961).