Something Will Turn Up

Stanley Rapp calls a technician to fix a television whose image stubbornly appears inverted no matter how the cabinet is placed; successive repairmen are baffled when the picture flips back once returned to his apartment. A youthful, bearded repairman with poetic airs suspects supernatural causes and attempts a hybrid of electronics and incantation, treating rhyme and technical notes as spellcraft. The tale blends domestic comedy with speculative whimsy, exploring tensions between practical technology and folk magic, and satirizes urban bohemian attitudes through a series of escalating, uncanny attempts to restore ordinary functionality.