This was the best story I ever read.\u00a0 I was in maybe the fifth grade, in 1959(?) and it was in a collection of short stories that was in our classroom for when you had finished your work early.\u00a0 It was not a brand-new book then, either.<\/p>\n
But the story!\u00a0 These two unemployed guys are looking through the want ads, and they find a doctor who wants volunteers for an experiment.\u00a0 He has a diving board that faces a black window.\u00a0 The volunteer is supposed to jump from the diving board into that unknown space.\u00a0 Well, one of the guys does it, but he never comes back.\u00a0 So his friend returns to the doctor\u2019s office and jumps through it himself.\u00a0 He describes what it was like:\u00a0 dim and twilit, with backwards writing on can labels, a sort of wasteland with boulders, and here and there a glowing luminescent ultra-violet hint, not too bright, but noticeable.\u00a0 Maybe two or three of these lights in the whole landscape.\u00a0 He figures out that his friend fell in the rocks and was killed, because of the improper alignment of this other world with our own.\u00a0 I mean, you can\u2019t just jump into it and assume you will be all right.\u00a0 So he thinks some more, and realizes that the glowing spots are places in our own world.\u00a0 One of them is the University, and the other appears to be the doctor\u2019s laboratory.\u00a0 So with great effort he leaps in some way back into the doctor\u2019s laboratory, and then throw the doctor himself through the window into the blackness.<\/p>\n
So, does this sound at all familiar?\u00a0 I\u2019ve never been able to find it again.\u00a0 I think of it as The Diving Board and the Black Window, but that\u2019s probably not the name of it.<\/p>\n
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If you can find it, I would be so happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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