ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes Frank’s second story, “Convergence.” Watson Page is a young physicist who publishes a controversial article proving the existence of parallel universes. Distracted by professional controversy, Page accidentally kills a motorist changing a tire. Page suffers a nervous breakdown and enters treatment with Dr. Distanziert.
Page begins to be visited by an apparition named Graf, Page’s twin in a parallel universe. Graf warns Page their two universes are converging. He encourages Page to save himself by joining Graf’s world. To convince him, Graf introduces Page to a Chinese magician named Ching Ling Foo, who is actually God. Foo tells Page he has entered an indeterminate state. He’s slipped into a gap between moments in time.
The experience of meeting Graf and Foo is too intense. Page commits himself to his psychoanalyst’s sanatorium where Distanziert injects him with a hypnotic sedative. The Freudian analyst demands to know what Graf has told him. Page suddenly realizes he can jump between worlds, but the doctor has no way out. Hearing this, the psychoanalyst raises a pistol to his head and kills himself.
Page steps into an alternate reality. He’s greeted by Graf, the motorist he’d killed, and Distanziert who hands him a cocktail.
