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[mind_over_metal]

*suddenly in camp, a young man in a wheelchair making an off-handed comment -- almost as if he had been talking to someone -- in a rather posh British accent*

So... not 1962, then...

((ETA @ 4:45AM EST: HOLY SHIT I'M GOING TO BED will pick up old and new threads over the course of the coming days!))

Comments

[servicewitha]

What's the farthest back that you know?

[servicewitha]

[ha ha]

[gameoverorbust]

So basically, there IS no way to make history interesting.

[servicewitha]

Perhaps not for you, but if you're actually interested, I could try.

[gameoverorbust]

[wrinkles his nose]

Nah, not really. The present has a lot more going for it!

[servicewitha]

Like what?

[gameoverorbust]

Like all the cool stuff you can do, of course! Camp isn't that great of an example, but even here there's stuff which you couldn't do in the past.

[servicewitha]

Doesn't that depend on which past you go to?

[gameoverorbust]

You mean like someone else's past?

[servicewitha]

There are so many different worlds and alternate universes, right?

[gameoverorbust]

I guess THAT could be fun, if I was in the right place in the right time. But that changes things completely, because then I'd be experiencing the past as my own present!

[servicewitha]

But wouldn't that be an interesting way of learning about it?

[gameoverorbust]

... yeah. Yeah, sure, it would!

[servicewitha]

Well, there you go.

[gameoverorbust]

But you can SAY that just fine, but we only get vacation for a short time anyway, and when we leave for good who's to say we'll have the ability to travel through worlds whenever we want?

[servicewitha]

I can.