Keith Denison explains his timecycle to Archcardinal Albin:
"'I told him my chariot flew too fast to see, like a bullet.'" (p. 362)
The Psychologist explains the disappearance of the model Time Machine:
"'We cannot see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air.'"
-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), 2, p. 16.
Observations
(i) Denison echoes the Psychologist.
(ii) Denison is lying. The timecycle simply does not exist between its departure and its arrival.
(iii) The Psychologist is contradicting the Time Traveller's premise that material objects do not move but merely extend along the Fourth Dimension.
(iv) The Psychologist is also perpetuating the fallacy that endurance or duration is motion.
(v) I have only just noticed his odd use of the word, "appreciate."
(vi) Anyone who stands in the way of a flying bullet certainly appreciates it.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul! Well, to be fair, Denison was probably trying to explain the time cycle to the archcardinal in terns he could understand. No REAL science in the alpha timeline, after all. Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Denison was also concealing the fact of time travel.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul! I had that in the back of my mind as well. But I wondered how much of that idea Albin could have understood. Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Denison can't talk about time travel but must give some coherent account of his origins and arrival.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I forgot about that, how Patrol agents were CONDITIONED not to talk about time traveling to people who were not either Patrol members from time traveling eras.
Ad astra! Sean
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