Inventions -- Fiction; Science fiction; Short stories; Time travel -- Fiction
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute." McCarthy I pushed them back. "I got an
idea. You know what happened? The three of us tried to come back to--to
the present, like Professor Ruddle says. But only one of us _belongs_
in the present--see what I mean? So with the three of us inside, the
machine just can't go anywhere."
"Well, that's easy," said McCarthy III. "I'm the only real--"
"Don't be crazy. I know _I'm_ the _real_ McCarthy; I _feel_ it--"
"Wait," McCarthy I told them. "This isn't gettin' us any place. The
air's gettin' bad in here. Let's go back and argue it out." He pushed
the lever down again.
So they went back a hundred and ten million years to discuss the matter
reasonably. And, when they arrived, what do you think they found?
Yep--exactly. That's exactly what they found.
[Illustration: _So they went back ... to discuss the matter
reasonably...._]
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