Project Gutenberg 2021-01-21 Public domain in the USA. 103 Tenn, William 1920 2010 Klass, Philip Putnam, Kenneth McWilliams, Al 1916 1993 McWilliams, Alden Spurr McWilliams, A. Me, Myself and I Produced from Planet Stories Winter 1947 Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Me, Myself and I" by Kenneth Putnam is a science fiction short story published in the early 20th century, specifically in the winter of 1947. The narrative follows the humorous and chaotic adventures of Galahad (Gooseneck) McCarthy, a vagabond who becomes involved in an experimental time-traveling journey that ultimately leads to a series of unforeseen complications. The central theme revolves around the potential consequences of time travel and the butterfly effect, where a simple action in the past can drastically alter the present. The story begins with Professor Ruddle enlisting McCarthy, a stubborn tramp, to operate a time machine. McCarthy reluctantly agrees in exchange for a monetary incentive and jumps back 110 million years to the Cretaceous Period. After moving a rock—a task he was warned could have significant implications—he returns to find adverse changes to the present, including the professor's altered identity and a hastened marriage. The need to rectify these unintended consequences leads to multiple trips through time, wherein McCarthy encounters doppelgängers of himself—each with their own agenda regarding the rock's displacement. The narrative comically examines identity, choice, and the paradoxes inherent in manipulating time, concluding with the characters ultimately becoming stranded in their own absurd cycle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 77.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Short stories Time travel -- Fiction Inventions -- Fiction PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Humour 57053 2025-07-25T11:35:26.734416 text/html 33608 2024-10-18T09:56:19 text/html 452573 2025-07-25T11:35:28.841445 application/epub+zip 451376 2025-07-25T11:35:27.374421 application/epub+zip 77978 2025-07-25T11:35:27.108384 application/epub+zip 490019 2025-07-25T11:35:30.091379 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 482590 2025-07-25T11:35:28.607403 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109498 2022-09-28T23:29:08.570529 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 50184 2025-07-25T11:35:26.615412 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30377 2024-10-18T09:56:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18195 2025-07-25T11:35:30.233368 application/rdf+xml 31013 2025-07-25T11:35:27.224382 image/jpeg 5216 2025-07-25T11:35:27.159400 image/jpeg 444868 2025-07-25T11:35:26.750411 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia