  We discuss the coordinate complexification necessary to obtain a spatially
homogeneous open universe in the singular instantonic solution recently
suggested by Hawking and Turok (hep-th/9802030), concluding that only the time
coordinate $\sigma$ of the spatially inhomogeneous De Sitter-like Lorentzian
solution and its scale factor should be rotated in order to continue into a
Lorentzian open universe.
