Robert Silverberg

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can’t be done subtly or delicately.

To enter the past is like poking a baseball bat into a spiderweb: it can’t be done subtly or delicately.

– Robert Silverberg –

Needle In A Timestack

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Amy Leach

I suppose that someday, suddenly, I will be transferred to another age, for example the chivalric or the bronze. The hope is, of course, that I arrive in period dress but not resemble a contemporary luminary, for I wish to simply onlook. But, more probably, thanks to chronologically garbled garb, or my mistakable face—which will lead to expectations of competence—I will have to explain my occurrence. That explained, I will have to explain my age, The Present, also known as “The Future” in the past. This is why I am studying our great inventions and advances: to be ready for questions.

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