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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Placebo - -Author: David Mason - -Release Date: February 5, 2022 [eBook #67324] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PLACEBO *** - - - - - - PLACEBO - - By DAVID MASON - - _Each 1955 was worse than the last!_ - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Infinity Science Fiction, November 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The object appeared in the middle of Main Way, about fifty feet from -the statue of Vachel Lindsay, and at least a hundred from anything -else. It was much too big and complicated to have been hidden anywhere, -and it hadn't any wheels, tracks, wings, or other visible means of -movement. - -Corrigan, looking the object over, decided that it could not have -come from any logical place in the world. Not being prejudiced, he -then thought a little about the illogical places, and the places that -weren't in the world. Corrigan decided that it must be another attempt -at time travel, and he clucked his tongue sympathetically. - -Well, someone had to break the news. Corrigan arose from the grass and -walked toward the object. - -There was a young man sitting in the object, on a sort of high -saddle. He looked a little wild-eyed, and he seemed to be talking to -himself, as he pulled and twisted at the rows of controls in front of -him. Corrigan, looking up at him, decided that he couldn't be very -healthy, and that the stiff gray garments he wore must be extremely -uncomfortable. - -"Greetings, traveler," Corrigan called. - -"You're speaking Anglish!" the young man exclaimed. "Good! Maybe I can -get some help here. What year is this?" - -"1955, by most systems." - -The young man turned a little paler. - -"I've just left 1955," he said unhappily. "Four times, in fact. Four -different 1955's. And each one's a bit worse. Now the machine won't -work." - -"Your theory's wrong," Corrigan said calmly. "Hasn't it occurred to you -yet that time travel might be impossible?" - -The young man made a choked sound. He began to climb down from his -perch, keeping his eyes fixed suspiciously on Corrigan as he did so. -He saw Corrigan as a small brown man, dressed in loose blue trousers, -barefooted, and with a puff of white hair that seemed never to -have been properly cut. The lawns and grassy roads, the bright and -impermanent-looking buildings, and Corrigan himself, all added up to -one thing in the young man's mind. - -"You're wrong," Corrigan said. "I'm not a lunatic, and this isn't an -asylum. We don't have them." - -The young man, on the ground now, stared at Corrigan in evident horror. - -"Mind reading?" - -"More or less," Corrigan said. "It saves time. For instance, you're -Darwin Lenner, and you'd like very much to get back to wherever you -started from. In fact, you have to, or something unpleasant might -happen to you, by your standards." - -"I'd be absent without permission," Lenner admitted. "I ... I wish you -wouldn't do that." - -"Only when absolutely necessary," Corrigan smiled. "I'm a philosopher -by trade, myself, not a mind reader. My name's Philip Corrigan, and -I'd be very glad to help you on your way ... but I think it might be a -little difficult. We aren't really a very mechanically-minded people -here." - -Lenner ran his hands through his hair. "I've _got_ to get back. Isn't -there anybody who knows something about time machines?" - -Corrigan had been thinking swiftly. He had also been carrying on a -conversation which Lenner could not possibly hear, with a man who was -several miles away. - -"_Burwell, he wants to go home._" - -"_Fine. He ought to. Why doesn't he?_" - -"_He lost his confidence. He thinks his machine's broken down._" - -"_That kind, eh? I suppose the thing never really did work very well._" - -"_Most of them don't. They go traveling around hit-or-miss through -probability under the operator's own mental steam--but this fellow -probably comes from a world where an idea like that's illegal._" - -"_Sounds like it. Corrigan, take him on a guided tour or something, and -keep him busy. I'll be over as soon as I can. I'm going to do something -for his self-confidence. Here's the story to give him...._" - - * * * * * - -Corrigan had always enjoyed conducting guided tours, and he was -enjoying this one especially well. He had a slightly wicked taste for -complicated teasing, and Lenner was a perfect object. He had evidently -come from one of the more unpleasant probabilities, a world full of -complex rules and harshly restrictive; everything that he saw bothered -him. The handsome girls, wearing unstrategically placed flowers and -very little else; the flocks of children, as plentiful as pigeons and -apparently as free of supervision; the almost total absence of anybody -actually performing useful work ... all of it contributed to Lenner's -increasing nervousness. - -The guided tour went in a wide circle, and Lenner and Corrigan wound up -sitting in a tavern facing on Main Way. Lenner ignored the green drink -before him and peered unhappily out the big window toward his machine. - -"Where _is_ that friend of yours?" he asked, for the fifth time. - -"He'll be here," Corrigan assured him. "Why hurry? Don't you like it -here?" - -Lenner's mouth hardened. He looked around him, and shook his head. - -"No." He spoke almost apologetically, "I'm sorry ... well, look, old -fellow, no hard feelings, I hope. But this world of yours is primitive. -Degenerate, I'd say." - -"Primitive?" - -"No laws--not even morals! Those girls ... and of course, you don't -have any civilized advantages. Not even ground transportation. That -man you spoke of has to _walk_ here. And that's something else I don't -understand. You say he's another time traveler...." - -"Probability traveler, actually," Corrigan corrected. - -"All right, probability. Why does he stay here? Why would a really -intelligent man give up civilization?" - -"Well, you know how it is. He's gone native, you might say. Life among -the lotus eaters, and all that. Might happen to anybody, even yourself." - -Lenner shuddered. - -"It's all right, though." Corrigan continued. "He'll be here any -minute, and I'm sure he'll be able to help. Knows all there is to know -about these machines. In fact, here he comes now." - -Burwell entered, and Corrigan could hardly suppress a small chuckle. -Burwell had picked up Lenner's ideas about what a man of intelligence -and authority ought to look like, and had gone to some trouble to look -the part. He was wearing a uniform of some sort, spectacles, and an -expression of extreme wisdom. - -"I'm sure I can repair what's wrong," Burwell told Lenner. "Let's go -and look at your machine." - -Arriving, Burwell climbed over the mechanism with an air of bored -ability, occasionally thumping at something, adjusting something else, -or hitting a part with a tool until it rang. He muttered to himself -as he worked, allowing the sound of his musings to drift in Lenner's -direction. - -"Umm ... badly twisted impeller ... the varish is more or less -waffled ... let's see if ... ah, there we are." - -He climbed down and solemnly shook hands with Lenner. - -"Fine machine you've got there, my boy. It'll take you back to your -own place quite easily now. There wasn't a thing wrong except the drift -crotch. However, I wouldn't use it again if I were you. There's no real -control on these things. A man could end up anywhere. And of course, -you'd never find your way back here, without control." - -"Well, thanks..." Lenner said doubtfully. He glanced around. "It's a -shame there's no way we could regularly communicate between our worlds. -There's a lot we could do for this one." - -"I'm sure of that," Burwell said, hastily looking away. "But it isn't -worth the danger and difficulty of reaching us. For myself, it doesn't -matter any more." He assumed a nobly tragic expression. "But you are -young; you've got your life ahead of you; your State and your society -need you. I'm glad to help you on your way." - -Lenner mounted the machine, and Burwell beamed a thought at Corrigan. - -"_I've convinced him that the thing works, and that it would not be -easy to come back. Actually, that machine of his is a real work of art. -It doesn't do a damn thing. This boy comes from a place where they -have to have a mechanical crutch for everything. His gadgets are pink -pill stuff ... something to convince him he can do things he could do -anyway. All we have to do now is give him a small mental shove to help -him along, and he'll be home in no time. All right, now--SHOVE!_" - -Corrigan and Burwell shoved. Lenner and his machine faded and were -gone, leaving only a flattened place on the grass. - -"Brrr," Burwell said. "Am I glad that worked! If he'd stayed another -week or so we would have had our first lunatic of the century." - -"Or worse," Corrigan said, stirring the grass with his toes. "Did you -get what he was thinking about when he talked about his world and ours -getting into touch, and civilizing us?" - -"I got it, all right." Burwell said. "The fellow's mind was a swamp. A -real primitive. And just like any other primitive, all he needed was a -placebo from a witch doctor. Me, in my savage regalia. Just let me get -this thing with the glass in it off my nose, and these button things -opened up a bit, and we can get on with that chess game. 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It was much too big and complicated to have been hidden anywhere, -and it hadn't any wheels, tracks, wings, or other visible means of -movement.</p> - -<p>Corrigan, looking the object over, decided that it could not have -come from any logical place in the world. Not being prejudiced, he -then thought a little about the illogical places, and the places that -weren't in the world. Corrigan decided that it must be another attempt -at time travel, and he clucked his tongue sympathetically.</p> - -<p>Well, someone had to break the news. Corrigan arose from the grass and -walked toward the object.</p> - -<p>There was a young man sitting in the object, on a sort of high -saddle. He looked a little wild-eyed, and he seemed to be talking to -himself, as he pulled and twisted at the rows of controls in front of -him. Corrigan, looking up at him, decided that he couldn't be very -healthy, and that the stiff gray garments he wore must be extremely -uncomfortable.</p> - -<p>"Greetings, traveler," Corrigan called.</p> - -<p>"You're speaking Anglish!" the young man exclaimed. "Good! Maybe I can -get some help here. What year is this?"</p> - -<p>"1955, by most systems."</p> - -<p>The young man turned a little paler.</p> - -<p>"I've just left 1955," he said unhappily. "Four times, in fact. Four -different 1955's. And each one's a bit worse. Now the machine won't -work."</p> - -<p>"Your theory's wrong," Corrigan said calmly. "Hasn't it occurred to you -yet that time travel might be impossible?"</p> - -<p>The young man made a choked sound. He began to climb down from his -perch, keeping his eyes fixed suspiciously on Corrigan as he did so. -He saw Corrigan as a small brown man, dressed in loose blue trousers, -barefooted, and with a puff of white hair that seemed never to -have been properly cut. The lawns and grassy roads, the bright and -impermanent-looking buildings, and Corrigan himself, all added up to -one thing in the young man's mind.</p> - -<p>"You're wrong," Corrigan said. "I'm not a lunatic, and this isn't an -asylum. We don't have them."</p> - -<p>The young man, on the ground now, stared at Corrigan in evident horror.</p> - -<p>"Mind reading?"</p> - -<p>"More or less," Corrigan said. "It saves time. For instance, you're -Darwin Lenner, and you'd like very much to get back to wherever you -started from. In fact, you have to, or something unpleasant might -happen to you, by your standards."</p> - -<p>"I'd be absent without permission," Lenner admitted. "I ... I wish you -wouldn't do that."</p> - -<p>"Only when absolutely necessary," Corrigan smiled. "I'm a philosopher -by trade, myself, not a mind reader. My name's Philip Corrigan, and -I'd be very glad to help you on your way ... but I think it might be a -little difficult. We aren't really a very mechanically-minded people -here."</p> - -<p>Lenner ran his hands through his hair. "I've <i>got</i> to get back. Isn't -there anybody who knows something about time machines?"</p> - -<p>Corrigan had been thinking swiftly. He had also been carrying on a -conversation which Lenner could not possibly hear, with a man who was -several miles away.</p> - -<p>"<i>Burwell, he wants to go home.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Fine. He ought to. Why doesn't he?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>He lost his confidence. He thinks his machine's broken down.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>That kind, eh? I suppose the thing never really did work very well.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Most of them don't. They go traveling around hit-or-miss through -probability under the operator's own mental steam—but this fellow -probably comes from a world where an idea like that's illegal.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Sounds like it. Corrigan, take him on a guided tour or something, and -keep him busy. I'll be over as soon as I can. I'm going to do something -for his self-confidence. Here's the story to give him....</i>"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Corrigan had always enjoyed conducting guided tours, and he was -enjoying this one especially well. He had a slightly wicked taste for -complicated teasing, and Lenner was a perfect object. He had evidently -come from one of the more unpleasant probabilities, a world full of -complex rules and harshly restrictive; everything that he saw bothered -him. The handsome girls, wearing unstrategically placed flowers and -very little else; the flocks of children, as plentiful as pigeons and -apparently as free of supervision; the almost total absence of anybody -actually performing useful work ... all of it contributed to Lenner's -increasing nervousness.</p> - -<p>The guided tour went in a wide circle, and Lenner and Corrigan wound up -sitting in a tavern facing on Main Way. Lenner ignored the green drink -before him and peered unhappily out the big window toward his machine.</p> - -<p>"Where <i>is</i> that friend of yours?" he asked, for the fifth time.</p> - -<p>"He'll be here," Corrigan assured him. "Why hurry? Don't you like it -here?"</p> - -<p>Lenner's mouth hardened. He looked around him, and shook his head.</p> - -<p>"No." He spoke almost apologetically, "I'm sorry ... well, look, old -fellow, no hard feelings, I hope. But this world of yours is primitive. -Degenerate, I'd say."</p> - -<p>"Primitive?"</p> - -<p>"No laws—not even morals! Those girls ... and of course, you don't -have any civilized advantages. Not even ground transportation. That -man you spoke of has to <i>walk</i> here. And that's something else I don't -understand. You say he's another time traveler...."</p> - -<p>"Probability traveler, actually," Corrigan corrected.</p> - -<p>"All right, probability. Why does he stay here? Why would a really -intelligent man give up civilization?"</p> - -<p>"Well, you know how it is. He's gone native, you might say. Life among -the lotus eaters, and all that. Might happen to anybody, even yourself."</p> - -<p>Lenner shuddered.</p> - -<p>"It's all right, though." Corrigan continued. "He'll be here any -minute, and I'm sure he'll be able to help. Knows all there is to know -about these machines. In fact, here he comes now."</p> - -<p>Burwell entered, and Corrigan could hardly suppress a small chuckle. -Burwell had picked up Lenner's ideas about what a man of intelligence -and authority ought to look like, and had gone to some trouble to look -the part. He was wearing a uniform of some sort, spectacles, and an -expression of extreme wisdom.</p> - -<p>"I'm sure I can repair what's wrong," Burwell told Lenner. "Let's go -and look at your machine."</p> - -<p>Arriving, Burwell climbed over the mechanism with an air of bored -ability, occasionally thumping at something, adjusting something else, -or hitting a part with a tool until it rang. He muttered to himself -as he worked, allowing the sound of his musings to drift in Lenner's -direction.</p> - -<p>"Umm ... badly twisted impeller ... the varish is more or less -waffled ... let's see if ... ah, there we are."</p> - -<p>He climbed down and solemnly shook hands with Lenner.</p> - -<p>"Fine machine you've got there, my boy. It'll take you back to your -own place quite easily now. There wasn't a thing wrong except the drift -crotch. However, I wouldn't use it again if I were you. There's no real -control on these things. A man could end up anywhere. And of course, -you'd never find your way back here, without control."</p> - -<p>"Well, thanks..." Lenner said doubtfully. He glanced around. "It's a -shame there's no way we could regularly communicate between our worlds. -There's a lot we could do for this one."</p> - -<p>"I'm sure of that," Burwell said, hastily looking away. "But it isn't -worth the danger and difficulty of reaching us. For myself, it doesn't -matter any more." He assumed a nobly tragic expression. "But you are -young; you've got your life ahead of you; your State and your society -need you. I'm glad to help you on your way."</p> - -<p>Lenner mounted the machine, and Burwell beamed a thought at Corrigan.</p> - -<p>"<i>I've convinced him that the thing works, and that it would not be -easy to come back. Actually, that machine of his is a real work of art. -It doesn't do a damn thing. This boy comes from a place where they -have to have a mechanical crutch for everything. His gadgets are pink -pill stuff ... something to convince him he can do things he could do -anyway. All we have to do now is give him a small mental shove to help -him along, and he'll be home in no time. All right, now—SHOVE!</i>"</p> - -<p>Corrigan and Burwell shoved. Lenner and his machine faded and were -gone, leaving only a flattened place on the grass.</p> - -<p>"Brrr," Burwell said. "Am I glad that worked! If he'd stayed another -week or so we would have had our first lunatic of the century."</p> - -<p>"Or worse," Corrigan said, stirring the grass with his toes. "Did you -get what he was thinking about when he talked about his world and ours -getting into touch, and civilizing us?"</p> - -<p>"I got it, all right." Burwell said. "The fellow's mind was a swamp. A -real primitive. And just like any other primitive, all he needed was a -placebo from a witch doctor. Me, in my savage regalia. Just let me get -this thing with the glass in it off my nose, and these button things -opened up a bit, and we can get on with that chess game. 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