Isto é " Não Viva no Passado " por Damon Knight (1951) . Mais recentemente foi coletado em sua antologia Longe, em profundidade, fora do centro, ligando .
Seu mantra foi " Eve and Agrid "
Mazurin said weakly, Kamerad, Tovarich. Ami.' Then it occurred to him that these men spoke English and, anyway, they apparently didn't intend to shoot. Not as long as he didn't move, at any rate. He shut up and tried to think. What the Blodgett had happened to him? The metal floor of the cell was hard and cold under his palms. He was here, all right, and not on the end of any pencil of temporal energy. It had happened when the cell door shut behind him.
He looked at the door. It was a grid of stout chrome-plated bars, with an interval between the bars of about three centimeters. A nonsense phrase came into his mind, 'Eve and Agrid,' which meant nothing. It wasn't Eve and Agrid; it was Eve and Adam. Eve and Agrid. Eve and Agrid. Eveandagrid -
Even a grid.
Mazurin shut his eyes and groaned. He opened them again when one of the guards made a warning sort of noise, and stared miserably at the limited vista before him. 'Above all,' one of the technicians had said, 'don't get yourself completely surrounded by metal, even a grid. It will break the temporal beam and you'll be marooned there ...'