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American author Jack Finney announced his major thematic material early in his career, in the short story "I'm Scared": "Haven't you noticed," the narrator comments, "... on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present""
Indeed, Finney carried out something of a one-man crusade against the present in many of his novels and numerous short stories and in their movie adaptations, and won a cult following for his novels The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. Finney's narrator in "I'm Scared" goes on to remark: "Man is disturbing the clock of time, and I am afraid it will break. When it does, I leave to your imagination the last few hours of madness that will be left to us all; all the countless moments that now make up our lives suddenly ripped apart and chaotically tangled in time." For Finney, however, the breaking apart of time was usually an experience to be treasured; sipped like fine old wine.
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