Invasion of the Body Snatchers

by Jack Finney

Gerry Montizambert, the manager, was leaning into our aisle, beckoning to me, and I muttered a blasphemy to Becky—it was a good picture, called Time and Again, about a guy who finds a way to visit the past—then

But I was a little annoyed; this kind of thing happened so often. All day people will wait around, thinking about calling the doctor, but deciding not to, deciding to wait, hoping it won’t be necessary. But then it gets dark, and there’s something about night that makes them decide that maybe they’d better have the doctor after all.

We hate facing new facts or evidence, because we might have to revise our conceptions of what’s possible, and that’s always uncomfortable.”

you don’t really see the familiar until it’s thrust upon you, you don’t actually notice, until there’s a reason to do so.