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March 28 - April 9, 2020
I am not sure that it is wise to make this story a matter of public record. Dr. Lister and I have hesitated before doing so. Our ultimate decision is based upon the belief that it is never expedient to suppress the truth. We do not expect it to secure immediate acceptance. There are some experiences which are alien to everyday life; they are “doomed for a certain term to walk the night” before the mind of man either recognizes them for what they are or dismisses their appearance as fantasy. —BERKELEY M. JONES Long Island, 1937
“LeNormand had some enemies. And we both know who they are.” I examined my mind and drew a blank. “I don’t.” He was impatient. “Don’t be thick. How about all that correspondence I used to type? The row he had with Trimble and Pforzman and Stanward, and the rest of them? There’s the motive. I’m sure of it.” I looked at him in astonishment. “You mean you think those stargazers and atom-busters would kill each other over the Einstein space-time theory? Nuts!” Jerry didn’t think it was impossible at all. He insisted that the matter was vital, fundamental, that I had no idea of the importance of
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There are undoubtedly a number of more valid reasons for loving a woman than her beauty, but I have never heard of a beautiful woman who went through life unloved by any man.
Nothing in life, I think, ordinarily happens in great, thunderous episodes of obvious and dramatic force. Life is a series of small things, and most of them mean much or little depending on how the observer thinks of them.
To let the world of the dead back in upon the living was a conception so horrible that I was shaken—a blasphemy more frightening than anything the theologians had ever conceived
