Some Words of Warning for Time Travellers

[anselmo_b]

Some Words of Warning for Time Travellers

for John Crowley

Good day, come in and state your heart’s desire.

You might have planned your trip to foreign times
To learn about the shape of things to come
To fetch a bit of knowledge,
The winning lotto numbers,
The best performing stocks,
Game scores and race results,
And such outcomes as you may safely bet on.

Comments

[dyvyd]

We are all already time travelers, and I am not sure I have seen that point better made. Certainly, I feel safer at this sedate pace, and I have very strong doubts that I could survive more than a few days (or minutes) in a more challenging historic time. My preferred mode of travel is reading and imagining. A timely poser.

[anselmo_b]

Thanks for that. Personally I could do with a really slower period than this one

bravo

[jackfirecat]

We all meet/are ourselves two times. Once in the present instant, and once again in the looking back, what could I have changed, and would I have? even though, and what then.

Re: bravo

[anselmo_b]

Thanks. And thanks for that thought too, the meeting of the self.