Withdrawing Fables From The Memory Bank (Parts 1–6)
Depositing Curious Fabricated Recollections
“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
— Stephen King
Introduction
The past is ever accumulating. Memories are just memories of memories. And looking back is yet one more rewrite.
I invite your imagination to override your skepticism and for a few moments indulge your credulity in accepting the fact that I took an actual time machine back to 1963, New York City, in January of 2024.
(H. G. Wells, who had written about it eleven years earlier, brought the gizmo to the U.S. during his 1906 visit and gave it to Mark Twain.
Twain — who in the apocryphal work “War of The Words” hinted that both he and Wells were Freemasons — had the machine in Connecticut until his death four years later. J. Edgar Hoover, a known Mason, got his hands on it and used it to travel back to medieval times . The rumors about these travels ranged from him visiting Thomas Aquinas to discuss communism to his meeting with a wealthy cloth merchant, Thomas Paycocke, for procurement of fabrics related to a crossdressing fetish.
At around the time that H. G. Wells’ image was included on the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album…
