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The Tunnel Under The World

Frederik Pohl

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The Tunnel Under The World | Frederik Pohl

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Pinching yourself is no way to see if you are dreaming. Surgical instruments? Well, yes—but a mechanic's kit is best of all!
ork of impressions and reactions. You expect things. When you open your medicine chest, your razor is expected to be on the second shelf; when you lock your front door, you expect to have to give it a slight extra tug to make it latch.

It isn't the things that are right and perfect in your life that make it familiar. It is the things that are just a little bit wrong—the sticking latch, the light switch at the head of the stairs that needs an extra push because the spring is old and weak, the rug that unfailingly skids underfoot.

It wasn't just that things were wrong with the pattern of Burckhardt's life; it was that the wrong things were wrong. For instance, Barth hadn't come into the office, yet Barth always came in.

Burckhardt brooded about it through dinner. He brooded about it, despite his wife's attempt to interest him in a game of bridge with the neighbors, all through the evening. The neighbors were people he liked—Anne and Farley Dennerman. He had known them all their lives. But they were odd and brooding, too, this night and he barely listened to Dennerman's complaints about not being able to get good phone service or his wife's comments on the disgusting variety of television commercials they had these days.

Burckhardt was well on the way to setting an all-time record for continuous abstraction when, around midnight, with a suddenness that surprised him—he was strangely aware of it happening—he turned over in his bed and, quickly and completely, fell asleep.

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n the morning of June 15th, Burckhardt woke up screaming.

It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear the expl

Ed 04/11/2020
A great, classic SF story that may have inspired several quite good films. ((view spoiler)[The Truman Show and Groundhog Day (hide spoiler)] among others.)

The original film version, though is not one of those good films. I could tell you the whole story of the film without spoiling the story, since it diverges quite a bit. Well,
Patrick 09/27/2017
imagine the plot of the movie Groundhog's Day. even though this was written 20 years before Groundhog's Day. combine it with the plot of the scariest Twilight Zone you've ever seen. Even though this was written five years before Twilight Zone ever premiered. in Groundhog's Day there was no explanati
Barbara 08/28/2010
I recently reread this story by Frederik Pohl, which is one of the classics of 1950s science fiction. It is the tale of a supposedly ordinary man in a small town who one day realizes that he is living the same day over and over again.But whereas a lesser author would have left it at that, Pohl unfol

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