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this a great uproar had resulted. Sometimes, he wished
he had kept his mouth shut. ^_
Now he was the center of world attention and might
just possibly be involved in a murder. In its aftereffects,
rather.
He closed his eyes and hoped he could go back to
sleep. He also hoped that, if he did sleep, he would not
dream. Or, if he did, he would dream pleasantly. He
had thought he had loved Frances, but when she came
to him in dreams, she scared him.
2.
PROFESSOR SAYS SPOOKS REALLY
SCIENCE-FICTION MONSTERS
Carfax forced himself to read the article under the
headline. Disgusted, he threw the paper down on the
floor with several others.
Trust the yellow dog the National Questioner to give
that turn to his lecture.
Yet, he thought, as he picked up the New York
Times from the pile on the table by his chair, the article
was essentially correct.
He was front-page news. Even the Times's writeup
on him was on the front page. In pre-MEDIUM days,
it would have mentioned him--if at all--some place
deep within its massive body.
"It can't be denied that we are getting communications
from another world, another universe, in fact,"
said Gordon Carfax, Professor of Medieval History at
Traybell University, Bush-is, Illinois. "We need not, however, depend upon the
supernatural for explanation.
Using Occam's razor..."
The National Questioner had defined Occam's razor.
Its editors had supposed, and rightly, that most of its
readers would think, if they thought at all, that
Occam's razor was some sort of barber's tool.
The New York Times had not bothered to explain
the term, leaving it up to their readers to go to the dictionary,
if they needed to do so.
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However, the Times had also used "science-fiction"
in classifying his theory.
Carfax was exasperated by this, but he had to admit
that it was almost impossible to get away from that
word; the temptation was too great for journalists. The
moment you spoke of the "fifth dimension"--reported
as the more familiar "fourth" by the National Questioner--you
invoked science-fiction. And when you
went on to talk of "polarized universes," of "\^rlds at
right angles to ours," and "alien sentients with possibly