scientists;
traders in art etc;
occasionally, rich tourists.
(Time Patrol, p. 249)
I would like to know:
how many of the "scientists" are physical scientists - and how many are more accurately describable as "scholars" (p. 342);
what is traded across time apart from art;
what kind of future societies send rich tourists so far into the past;
what other kinds of civilian time travelers there are.
There is so much that we do not know about the Time Patrol timeline.
As for contemporary visitors, King Hiram tells Eborix (Everard):
"'...foreigners come and go like vagrant breezes. Who shall track the wind?'" (p. 288)
Here is yet another metaphorical use of the word "wind."
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I would expect all LEGITIMATE civilian time travelers from the remote future being allowed only if supervised and licensed by the Time Patrol. Criminals like the Exaltationists would, of course, have no intention of obeying the Danellian laws regulating time travel.
I do see your point about scientists versus scholars. But, wouldn't ARCHEOLOGISTS straddle the line between scholarship and the physical sciences?
And I can see legitimate traders in art buying artifacts from the remote past by posing as ordinary people of those days purchasing pottery ware, jewelry, religious objects, etc.
And the idea of time traveling TOURISTS interests me! I've done some touring myself, in the UK and Italy. I would expect the Danellians to insist on strict rules rigorously enforced by the Time Patrol which wealthy persons from the future would have to consent to observing before they would be allowed to visit some, not all, milieus of the past.
Yes, I agree, there is still so much we don't know about the Danellians and the Time Patrol.
Sean
Archaeologists!
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