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fuzzy objects exist in a preponderance of the colliding universes. When the fog clears, the professor's hotel is no longer there. He waits for more fog and wanders into it, hoping to get home. This time when the fog clears, he is seized by silent men in white coats. They take him to an asylum which turns out to be a rehab clinic for people who can't read minds. He "recovers" quickly, since he has no brain damage. He goes on to make a comfortable living "inventing" technologies he remembers from his home universe. And now when it gets foggy, he stays put.
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