For the first few pages all went well.
However, I was reading at night and occasionally began to dose off.
Overall, I did enjoy reading Manhole 69. It made me think quite a bit about how the loss of sleep could affect the human mentality. I wonder how they chose their three test subjects for the experiment, and how much Dr. Neill paid them.
What happened at 3:15AM really threw me for a loop. I didn't quite understand what was happening at first, but later realized that time was not passing for the test subjects minds. They were effectively trapped in a shrinking room for eternity. If they went crazy in the 10 minutes that Morley was gone, what did they experience in the hours before Lang was "revived"?
I suppose it was meant to end that way, with the author leaving us unanswered questions to make us think and draw our own conclusions.
I know what you mean about the time, it kind of makes you wonder if the author was dosing off while writing this but then you realized what was really going on. I wish it wasn't a short story because there were so many questions unanswered that I wanted to find out why.
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