Waldo – Heinlein – 1942
Waldo, meanwhile, having satisfied himself that the deKalbs really are having basic problems, also realizes that Grimes is right. Then he gets a call from NAPA’s head of research, Dr. Rambeau, who seems to have come unhinged. Having seen the wiggling deKalbs, he announces that he knows what is happening. “Magic is loose in the world!” he tells Waldo. He shows Waldo some seemingly impossible tricks he can do now that he understands magic. Waldo calls Stevens to have Rambeau brought to him, but Stevens reports that Rambeau somehow escaped from his restraints without actually unfastening them. Not only that, he has made another set of deKalbs behave as strangely as McLeod’s. Waldo asks to have Rambeau’s notes and equipment shipped up to him.
Gramps Schneider —
According to Schneider, the “Other World is close by and full of power”, waiting only for someone to grab it. In Schneider’s hands, Waldo does indeed experience a sense of well-being, and is able to lift up a coffee cup one-handed for the first time in his life.
Schneider explains an old philosophy, how something which can be true for this world might not be for the Other World. Since our minds sit in the Other World, this is important. McLeod, according to Schneider, was “tired and fretful”, and found one of the “bad truths”, causing the deKalbs to fail. Schneider simply looked for the other truth, and the deKalbs worked again.
Waldo
Waldo, meanwhile, having satisfied himself that the deKalbs really are having basic problems, also realizes that Grimes is right. Then he gets a call from NAPA’s head of research, Dr. Rambeau, who seems to have come unhinged. Having seen the wiggling deKalbs, he announces that he knows what is happening. “Magic is loose in the world!” he tells Waldo. He shows Waldo some seemingly impossible tricks he can do now that he understands magic. Waldo calls Stevens to have Rambeau brought to him, but Stevens reports that Rambeau somehow escaped from his restraints without actually unfastening them. Not only that, he has made another set of deKalbs behave as strangely as McLeod’s. Waldo asks to have Rambeau’s notes and equipment shipped up to him.
Gramps Schneider —
According to Schneider, the “Other World is close by and full of power”, waiting only for someone to grab it. In Schneider’s hands, Waldo does indeed experience a sense of well-being, and is able to lift up a coffee cup one-handed for the first time in his life.
Schneider explains an old philosophy, how something which can be true for this world might not be for the Other World. Since our minds sit in the Other World, this is important. McLeod, according to Schneider, was “tired and fretful”, and found one of the “bad truths”, causing the deKalbs to fail. Schneider simply looked for the other truth, and the deKalbs worked again.
Waldo