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As Long As You Wish, by John O'Keefe
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Title: As Long As You Wish
Author: John O'Keefe
Illustrator: van Dongen
Release Date: January 2, 2008 [EBook #24121]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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AS LONG AS YOU WISH
If, somehow, you get trapped in a circular time system ... how long is the circumference of an infinitely retraced circle?
By JOHN O'KEEFE
Illustrated by van Dongen
The patient sat stiffly in the leather chair on the other side of the desk. Nervously he pressed a coin into the palm of one hand.
"Just start anywhere," I said, "and tell me all about it."
"As before?" Without waiting for an answer, he continued, the coin clutched tightly in one hand. "I'm Charles J. Fisher, professor of Philosophy at Reiser College."
He looked at me quickly. "Or at least I was until recently." For a second his face was boyish. "Professor of Philosophy, that is."
I smiled and found that I was staring a