A. Merritt's Fantasy Magazine, February 1950 — page 129: what you’re looking at

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THE SCIENCE OF TIME-TRAVEL (Continued from page 115) and shifts along the tube. An event has occurred. A new thing exists beside the old. Both lie there side by side, and the difference between their aspects is the Change. Also, it is movement. HE interval between these two is all that our poor human senses are able to perceive. We cannot see the things them- selves, for we, like all else, are not static elements but interval-relationships in spacetime. And upon that basis we have built our conception of everything—being ourselves a part of this ceaseless change, like shadows to which every other shadow must seem a thing of substance! I need not pursue further the analogy of the time-fluid. You can picture the building changing Universe, reborn every instant, extending itself infinitely along the tube of time. With widened imagina- tion thus we can imagine time like the giant ribbon of a motion-picture film of infinite length. The whole story is there upon it. And now we come to particularize. We come to me, to you. In each of us lives a spark of the original catalyst. For simple analogy again, let us suppose that each individual consciousness is endowed with a certain vibration rate, certain char- acteristics by which its energy is made manifest. And so there is only one por- tion of time—one tiny section of the tube with which that vibratory rate is com- patible. We are thus part of the great pattern; changed replicas of each of us are strewn side by side in time, for the lengths of our life-spans. Our senses enable us only to be aware of the intervals between our changes; and so it seems to us that we move forward in time; but upon that great record of time, all those myriad pictures of us are engraved in their progressive changes. The scroll of time, engraved by some- thing inconceivable to the human mind, laboring with all the wisdom, with gentle- ness, sternness and justice and an infinite love. There is the conception. With it in mind, by any method of future science you may wish to devise, at once time-travel is pos- > Stop using Harsh Abrasive Soaps, Sahara will Remove Without Water — Paint, Tar, Grease, Grime, Printers’ ink, ete. QUICKLY «<= EASILY — SAFELY. Contains lanolin, Prevents Chapping and Rough Red Hands. _ At Your Dealer or Send $1.00 for two 60¢ Tubes — Postpaid — Money-Back Guarantee — Agents Wanted SAHARA WATERLESS SOAP CO., Grand Rapids 2 Michigan / Saves Costly Redecorating AMAZING INVENTION. Banishes old- ? style, housecleaning mess nd muss. No rags—no sticky ‘‘dough’’—no red, swollen hands. No Shere © from Walle te . i | Literal = dirt tke from Wallpaper, Painte 3. Snaele FF ‘ake orders from daearap ay ris money! ok now SAMPLES FOR TRIAL; caer aly to all who gend name at SEND NO Just your name. KRISTER COn 1446 Oar Saeoe ARRON. Ohio IF | Send YOU THIS FINE SUIT- Will You Wear it and Show It to Friends? Amazing plan! No money needed! I want an ambitious, alert man in your town to ot this pagan made-to-measure suit = king a few orders from friends. Show it—talk about it—use this suit to help you take moreorders and earn up & $10.00 in a day. My sensational plan can bring you good money—easy! No Experience Needed—No House -to-House Canvassing Experience not necessary. low price mean big income for you | without house-to-house canvassi and amazi cesnes a get yourowns t 5 asa BONUS without paying one cent. ¢ - Send for FREE Cloth Samples! isopplycomplete,elaboratedemonstrat- £& ing samples to you and SURE - FIRS selling plans. This is your ar} chance. Don’t let anyone get ahead of eo wml a once. Income may day. Send ae Bape Pi ned Bg or ever. awaits today. plete oe ment Land curorising B SUT OR ERE about a oes oT, ga k act one 4 Sohn Grant, STONE-FIELD Corp. S32 S. Throop Street Dept. A-796, Chicago7Z,Ille. our “129 GomiiGcbook S C@ in ZED)