The Six Fingers of Time

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The Six Fingers of Time is by R. A. Lafferty. A character breaks the glass of water on his night stand, and the glass shatters slowly. The big clock still says six, and the second hand has moved a third of the dial.

The book lists advantages intellectual, monetary, and amorous in being able to enter the accelerated state at will. A character named Vincent could always find eight or ten minutes unobserved to accomplish the day's work, and a fifteen-minute coffee break could turn into a fifteen-hour romp around the town. The text describes a boyish pleasure in becoming a ghost: to appear and stand motionless in front of an onrushing train and to cause the scream of the whistle.

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R. A. Lafferty

Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American electrical engineer who turned to fiction in his mid-forties. A devout Catholic and self-taught polymath from Oklahoma, he produced a torrent of wildly inventive stories and novels, won a Hugo Award, and became a lasting cult favorite among writers.

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Author: R. A. Lafferty
Pages: 24
Language: English
Genre: Science Fiction
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