100 Words: Honor and Respect the Older Fellow

[crisper]

My 100th birthday. The alarm wakes me five minutes before my younger self materializes

Comments

[mmcirvin]

It's ambiguous in the song just what year it is when the time-traveler smothers himself. There seem to be two major schools of thought, that he did it in 3415 or that he went back to 2082 and did it (but either way, not quite finding out what the deal was beforehand). I think one can find support for either interpretation in the lyrics, though the latter seems better motivated from a character perspective.

[crisper]

I like to think that the smothering occurs in all of those times as causality flips and twists to keep you from ever really murdering yourself. Like a temporal whack-a-mole.

[mmcirvin]

In any event, the song tells its little story with remarkable narrative economy.

[haineux]

Is this related to this: http://blog.imaginaryfoundation.com/2012/02/06/the-grandfather-paradox-60-second-adventures-in-thought/