The Disappearance Author:Philip Wylie The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifity two seconds past four o'clock Eastern Standard Time. — One minute it was the world as we knew it. In the next, the women disappeared from men, and the men from the women. Suddenly it became two worlds: one male and one female. Each... more » as before except that there was no opposite sex.« less