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).
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?
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