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A man walks into a bookshop and and wanders to the section he habitually browses. The title of the book leaps out at him for it is the very same word as the password he uses when accessing an online news site. Curiosity gets the better of him so he purchases the book.
Upon reading the book the man discovers the story correlates highly with a series of lucid dreams occurring over a period of years. Confused the man begins to ponder. Most would describe his experience as coincidence, with the implication that deeper intellectual investigation is pointless. The man does not agree, formulating several theories which could describe the phenomena.
He is more than a little surprised to discover the book claims classic status and that has been in print for over fifteen years. If this were so, reasons the man, how did he not become aware of it sooner. His interest had been tweaked by the name, and he had certainly been using the corresponding password for over five years. If it had been on the shelf in any bookshop he had visited he would have noticed it.
Whilst pondering the problem an the man recollects an interpretation of quantum-mechanics which suggests there is an infinite number of universes. Relative to his perspective the book sprang to existence the day he bought it. Consensus would have it that the book was published fifteen-years ago and by some fluke or other he had failed to spot it.
What, wonders the man, if both are right. What if the man had stepped through an unseen doorway from one universe to the other. From a universe where the book was not to one where it was. The coincidences in this case could then be explained as strange attractors asserting themselves as meta-reality itself bent around him.
After an especially nasty car accident the man had a nervous breakdown. Inspired in part by the emotional ramifications of passing into a different universe. How, he began to wonder, could he tell if the people waiting at home for him were the same as those he left? His family could be lost to him forever and he wouldn't be able to tell.
The man eventually reconciled his intellectual, emotional, and spiritual minds, discovering many things in the process. He was however forced to spend time in hospital. Upon asking his partner to bring some reading matter he was not at all surprised when she brought him the very book which started it all.
The original message behind the man's dreams is still known to him. He now waits to see how this will resolve:
A Tower: Something from the future, for use in the past.