Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 54 — page 52: what you’re looking at

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MAN IN A MAZE separate the general and the specific if you couldn’t ex- periment anywhere else? But the incident of the rabbit’s leg, isolated in an interval of normality, smelled of a true trail—he knew that smell. Whereas the larger lunacy of interchanging rooms and carpets and so forth was altogether overwhelming—it didn’t intrigue him—it fright- ened him. It was too much. One can only measure ab- normality against normality, and when everything around starts becoming abnormal cone currently, then one’s little foot rule of a scientific method becomes about as useful as a toothpick. It was unnerving, then, when he came away tired but content from the lab, puzzling happily about rabbits’ legs, and opened a door and walked straight back into this nightmare world of senseless flux—the bedroom that had become the bathroom, and the bathroom that had be- come the lounge. He sat in the armchair and thought about it. And the thinking did no good, for the things went on happening 51 after that constantly—stupid things that spoiled his work, that, indeed, made work use- less. He kept ’phoning Parkside 2195 and getting non- committal answers. Until one day the agent said, abruptly: “Mr. Sweet is on his way to see you.” “When can I expect him?” But the agent had hung up. Sweet didn’t come until the next day, letting himself in quietly with his own key. He ran Tyler to earth in the lounge. Tyler lay sprawled on the divan, gazing unseeingly at the ceiling. “Taking a day off, little man? No, don’t get up—I’m not of royal blood.” Tyler subsided. Mr. Sweet carefully lowered his bulk into one of the large arm- chairs. It was a tight fit. “The reports are in the lab,” said Tyler. “But, of course, I can tell you the gist of them.”’ “Anything promising?” “The most promising was a line in metallurgy—detecting metals in solution. It’s known, for example, that titanium in sulphuric acid produces an Ccomicloooks.com