"Philip Jose Farmer - The Sliced Crosswise Only on Tuesday W" - читать интересную книгу автора (Farmer Phillip Jose)

"Let go. You're hurting me. She's gone. To Tuesday."
"Tuesday! Tuesday?"
"Sure. She'd been trying to get out of here for a long time. She had something about
this day being unlucky for her. She was unhappy, that's for sure. Just two days ago,
she said her application had finally been accepted. Apparently, some Tuesday psycher
had used his influence. He came down and saw her in her stoner and that was it,
brother."
The walls and the people and the stoners seemed to be distorted. Time was bending
itself this way and that. He wasn't in Wednesday; he wasn't in Tuesday. He wasn't in
any day. He was stuck inside himself at some crazy date that should never have
existed.
"She can't do that!"
"Oh, no! She just did that!"
"But тАж you can't transfer more than once!"
"That's her problem."
It was his, too.
"I should never have brought him down to look at her!" Tom said. "The swine! The
unethical swine!"
 Tom Pym stood there for a long time, and then he went into the kitchen. It was the
same environment, if you discounted the people. Later, he went to the studio and got a
part in a situation play which was, really, just like all those in Tuesday. He watched
the newscaster that night. The President of the U.S.A. had a different name and face,
but the words of his speech could have been those of Tuesday's President. He was
introduced to a secretary of a producer; her name wasn't Mabel, but it might as well
have been.
The difference here was that Jennie was gone, and oh, what a world of difference it
made to him.
The End
┬й 1971 by Philip Jose Farmer. Renewed
1999 by the author. Reprinted with
permission of the agent. First publication,
New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert
Silverberg Doubleday, 1971.