Once again, drunken genius Gallegher invents something without knowing that he has done so. This time around, it’s a box that swallows things up until they reappear at now + x.
He was, Vanning reflected, an odd duck. Galloway was essentially amoral, thoroughly out of place in this too-complicated world. He seemed to watch, with a certain wry amusement, from a vantage point of his own, rather disinterested for the most part. And he made things—

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  1. “Time Locker,” as by Lewis Padgett, Astounding, January 1943.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Henry Kuttner as by Lewis Padgett
    C. L. Moore as by Lewis Padgett