{"product_id":"2940015576764","title":"A TRAVELER IN TIME","description":"\"Tell me what time is,\" said Harrigan one late summer afternoon in a\u003cbr\u003eMadison Street bar. \"I'd like to know.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A dimension,\" I answered. \"Everybody knows that.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All right, granted. I know space is a dimension and you can move\u003cbr\u003eforward or back in space. And, of course, you keep on aging all the\u003cbr\u003etime.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Elementary,\" I said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But what happens if you can move backward or forward in time? Do you\u003cbr\u003eage or get younger, or do you keep the status quo?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm not an authority on time, Tex. Do you know anyone who traveled in\u003cbr\u003etime?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarrigan shrugged aside my question. \"That was the thing I couldn't get\u003cbr\u003eout of Vanderkamp, either. He presumed to know everything else.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vanderkamp?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He was another of those strange people a reporter always runs into.\u003cbr\u003eLived in New York--downtown, near the Bowery. Man of about forty, I'd\u003cbr\u003esay, but a little on the old-fashioned side. Dutch background, and\u003cbr\u003ehipped on the subject of New Amsterdam, which, in case you don't know,\u003cbr\u003ewas the original name of New York City.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't mind my interrupting,\" I cut in. \"But I'm not quite straight on\u003cbr\u003ewhat Vanderkamp has to do with time as dimension.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh, he was touched on the subject. He claimed to travel in it. The fact\u003cbr\u003eis, he invented a time-traveling machine.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"You certainly meet the whacks, Tex!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Don't I!\" He grinned appreciatively and leaned reminiscently over the\u003cbr\u003ebar. \"But Vanderkamp had the wildest dreams of the lot. And in the end\u003cbr\u003ehe managed the neatest conjuring trick of them all. I was on the\u003cbr\u003eBrooklyn _Enterprise_ at that time; I spent about a year there. Special\u003cbr\u003efeatures, though I was on a reporter's salary. Vanderkamp was something\u003cbr\u003eof a local celebrity in a minor way; he wrote articles on the early\u003cbr\u003eDutch in New York, the nomenclature of the Dutch, the history of Dutch\u003cbr\u003eplace-names, and the like. He was handy with a pen, and even handier\u003cbr\u003ewith tools. He was an amateur electrician, carpenter, house-painter, and\u003cbr\u003eclaimed to be an expert in genealogy.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And he built a time-traveling machine?\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147904893168,"sku":"2940015576764","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015576764","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}