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... and it Comes out Here
Lester del Rey
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There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isn't always so!
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... and it Comes out Here
There is one fact no sane man can quarrel with ... everything has a beginning and an end. But some men aren't sane; thus it isnât always so!
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No, youâre wrong. Iâm not your fatherâs ghost, even if I do look a bit like him. But itâs a longish story, and you might as well let me in. You will, you know, so why quibble about it? At least, you always have ... or do ... or will. I donât know, verbs get all mixed up. We donât have the right attitude toward tenses for a situation like this.
Anyhow, youâll let me in. I did, so you will.
Thanks. You think youâre crazy, of course, but youâll find out you arenât. Itâs just that things are a bit confused. And donât look at the machine out there too longâuntil you get used to it, youâll find itâs hard on the eyes, trying to follow where the vanes go. Youâll get used to it, of course, but it will take about thirty years.
Youâre wondering whether to give me a drink, as I remember it. Why not? And naturally, since we have the same tastes, you can make the same for me as youâre having. Of course we have the same tastesâweâre the same person. Iâm you thirty years from now, or youâre me. I remember just how you feel; I felt the same way when heâthat is, of course, I or weâcame back to tell me about it, thirty years ago.
Here, have one of these. Youâll get to like them in a couple more years. And you can look at the revenue stamp date, if you still doubt my story. Youâll believe it eventually, though, so it doesnât matter.
Right now, youâre shocked. Itâs a real wrench when a man meets himself for the first time. Some kind of telepathy seems to work between two of the same people. Yousense things. So Iâll simply go ahead talking for half an hour or so, until you get over it. After that youâll come along with me. You know, I could try to change things around by telling what happened to me; but heâIâtold me what I was going to do, so I might as well do the same. I probably couldnât help telling you the same thing in the same words, even if I triedâand I donât intend to try. Iâve gotten past that stage in worrying about all this.
So letâs begin when you get up in half an hour and come out with me. Youâll take a closer look at the machine, then. Yes, itâll be pretty obvious it must be a time machine. Youâll sense that, too. Youâve seen it, just a small little cage with two seats, a luggage compartment, and a few buttons on a dash. Youâll be puzzling over what Iâll tell you, and youâll be getting used to the idea that you are the man who makes atomic power practical. Jerome Boell, just a plain engineer, the man who put atomic power in every home. You wonât exactly believe it, but youâll want to go along.
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Iâll be tired of talking ...