My Library

I looked at her blankly. I was not sure what to say, so I asked her what
workmen.
"The men working on the road, of course." She had not yet sensed anything
wrong.
Before I realized what effect it would have, I said there were no men working
on the road. With this, she looked at me intently, with a growing suspicion. I
was thoroughly unsure of what to do next, so I left his body and returned
through the hole.
Another eventful intrusion came when "I" There had set up his laboratory. He
was not fully qualified to perform research, but he had decided he could
make some kind of new discoveries. He had (perhaps with the assistance of
Lea's wealth) taken a huge storage building, divided it internally into small
rooms, and was conducting some kind of experiments. In the middle of one, I
displaced him in his body, but was unable to calculate what was next in his
routine. Just then, Lea came in, with visitors, principally to show the kind of
work he had achieved in the renovated building. I (in "I" There's body) stood
there unable to speak when Lea asked me to tell them of the work I had been
doing.
Somewhat embarrassed, Lea led the couple out into another room. I
hesitated when perhaps "I" There would have followed. I tried to "feel" any
pattern of activity that he might have been doing. The best I could get was
that he had been trying to develop new forms of theatrical entertainment,
designing theater stages, lighting, and sets, all in an attempt to make
watching a play a strongly subjective experience. With only this partial
success in his recall, I left his body when I heard them returning so as to
avoid further complicating his life.
A vacation in the mountains was under way at another intrusion point. "I"
There, Lea, and the two children were riding along a winding mountain road,
each on the self-propelled vehicle described elsewhere. I "took over'
inadvertently just as they were reaching the bottom of one hill and had
started up another. New to the device, I tried to make it go up the next hill,
and soon rolled off the road and into a small pile of dirt. The rest waited while
I tried to get back on the road, and I muttered that there were better ways to
get around than this. This triggered something in Lea, and she suddenly
became quiet. Why, I did not know. (I'm sure "I" There did.) I tried to tell her
that I was not who she thought, then realized that this was only making it
worse. I "left," returning to the hole and the physical body.
In later intrusions, "I" There and Lea no longer lived together. He had met
with some success, but some action of his alienated her. Alone, he has