Richard Matheson,
The Man Who Made the World
“ Nurse M. (Reeling) Everything is ... is fading! Doctor Janishefsky, it's fading! (Another scream) DOCTOR J. Don't be absurd, Nurse Mudde. Look at me. Can you honestly say that.... (He stops talking. She cannot honestly say anything. She is not there. Doctor Janishefsky who is not really Doctor Janishefsky floats alone in the cosmos in his chair which is not really a chair. He looks at the chair beside him.) ”
Richard Matheson,
The Man Who Made the World
“ DOCTOR J. I don't....SMITH. Anyone can make a world. It takes ingenuity to make one and then make the people on it think that it's existed for millions of years.DOCTOR J. How long did all this take you?SMITH. Three and a half months. World time.DOCTOR J. What do you mean by that?SMITH. Before I made the world I lived beyond time.DOCTOR J. Where's that?SMITH. No where.DOCTOR J. In the cosmos? ”
Richard Matheson,
The Man Who Made the World
“ DOCTOR J. But the world is millions of years old.SMITH. (Shaking his head) No. It isn't.DOCTOR J. It's five years old.SMITH. That's correct.DOCTOR J. What about fossils? What about the age of rocks? Uranium into lead. What about diamonds? ”
