# Carl Jacobi — Short Fiction character guide

> Carl Jacobi in Short Fiction by Clifford D. Simak.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mr. Jonathon Chambers, Mr. Chambers

**First appearance:** 0000-hellhounds-of-the-cosmos

## Who they are

A solitary man of fixed habits whose nightly walk to buy a cigar goes wrong when an entire city block simply vanishes, and only he seems to notice.

## In the story

### [The Street That Wasn’t There](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_10_se/chapters/the-street-that-wasn-t-there)

Mr. Chambers, the protagonist, is a former professor who wrote a controversial book on mind and matter. He is now a hermit witnessing the dissolution of his world.

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