The Second Time Travel Megapack by Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Robert J. Sawyer & Mack Reynolds

Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch & Robert J. Sawyer & Mack Reynolds
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: time travel, science fiction, short stories, adventure, sci-fi
ISBN: 9781479403400
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 2014-08-12T04:00:00+00:00

OUTSIDE OF TIME, by Carroll John Daly

They call me simply L. D. or The Lazy Dean. I have come to accept it as a title both of esteem and affection. The boys at the university started it. The faculty took it up. They mean, a lazy body and not a lazy mind. I am not so well informed on the happenings of the day. I use my reading time for the things that others do not read.

I am much more interested in what does not appear in the newspapers than what does appear. There are many better fitted to understand and explain the everyday happenings of life. I like to live by the side of the road—but the side of a side road.

For years I have enjoyed a very unofficial position at the school. I am a good listener and a good believer. Will I believe in the impossible? I don’t have to believe in the impossible, for I have eliminated the word impossible from my own lexicon. I find things improbable but nothing more. Too many strange things happen.

It is a pleasant saying around the university when one relates anything that strains the credulity, of the academic mind: “Tell it to the Lazy Dean.”

So the boys often come to me with improbable happenings. Even the faculty, half-apologetically, with a pretense that it is all in good fun—but watching me furtively to see how I take it.

It is surprising how busy I am.

It is with a feeling of satisfaction and comfort that I sit down with my pipe and listen to one of our students confide to me things he would not even breathe to his closest friend.

So it was with that feeling that I opened the door of my rooms on the second floor of the museum building to Tommy Slater of the medical school. Tommy was a medium-sized rather slim dark young man who if he avoided surgery and didn’t specialize would, make a remarkably fine family doctor. Easygoing, pleasant of manner—mild, friendly bright blue eyes and a generous humorous mouth. He would never set the river on fire but then it was my opinion that a good doctor never would. Nature cures. A good doctor brings simply comfort and confidence to the sick.

There were lines under Tommy’s eyes and the likable little twist to the corner of his mouth was more pronounced. Tommy was the school hero though he hadn’t been near the university since it happened almost a week ago. He was New York City’s hero. Indeed a national and international hero who had swept all other news from the press and the radio and no doubt from the minds of men and women.

He saw me look at the clock for although I kept late hours it was then five minutes before twelve.

“Come, come, L. D.” His laugh was a forced one. “You never turn down your fellow man day or night. I know it is late and I expect it will be much later still before you get rid of me.

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