When Homer Hoose arrives home to his perfect home one evening, he is met by other Homers whom
the Diogenes Pontifex insists are not Jung’s alternate versions of ourselves, but instead
are actual versions of ourselves occupying the same space. None of which has to do with time
travel, but the brilliant Diogenes does mention in passing his experiments in other fields. I
suppose that’s another Lafferty story, but I haven’t run into it yet.
“You speak of it as if. . . well, isn’t this the twentieth century?” Regina asked.
“This the twentieth?
Why, you’re right! I guess it is,” Diogenes agreed. “You see, I carry on
experiments in other fields also, and sometimes get my times mixed.”
DEBUT
“The Hole on the Corner,” in Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight (G. P. Putnam’s
Sons, June 1967).
VARIANTS
Debut. “The Hole on the Corner,” in Orbit 2, edited by Damon Knight (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, June 1967).
“You speak of it as if. . . well, isn’t this the twentieth century?” Regina asked.
1 English variant