CHAPTER VISponge Out the Past
Later Peter went to bed. Eventually he slept, his head seething with useless plans and thoughts so complex as to defy description. He had a distracting dream.
A flying saucer was drifting on the surface of an odd-looking ocean where the waves looked unaccountably like minutes, though how he recognized the likeness he didn’t know. Aboard the saucer were three time-travelers named Wynken, Blinken and Nod, and they were all sea-sick.
At intervals they staggered to the anchor-chain and tried feebly to pull it up. The chain kept swaying and twitching wildly.
Aside from the obvious fact that the three kept coiling and uncoiling like gastropods, the time-travelers were utterly indescribable.
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The next morning—so to speak—Owen woke with a much clearer hea
