Three Short Essays on Time Travel
It’s About Time someone willen have invented time travel
“One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother… The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveler’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations.” — Douglas Adams
My dream job: editor for time travel writers. Aside from getting to ponder the circular nature of time until I feel dizzy (my current record is 12 seconds), I could nitpick away at various tenses to my heart’s content.
After all, it will be important to capture in the clearest way possible how someone about to travel back in time to do something or fix something that has already been done or fixed because they had already done it in the past has …er…is about to have done it… for posterity?
To help, I found this nice little post from The Messy Wordsmithy and this much longer one from QNTM.org, into which somebody evidently put a whole lot of time and energy. (See what I did there?)
Client submissions must be accompanied by detailed overlapping timelines (preferably in Gantt-chart format), noting not just when in the past and future they acted, but when they initiated time travel to past and future events as…
