"The fact that he was really here, now, personally, stabbed into him."
-Poul Anderson, The Corridors Of Time, CHAPTER FIVE, p. 38.
"...here, now..." is pre-Danish Denmark, 1827 B.C.
"This was the first moment when the reality of time travel struck home to Everard..." (see Reality And Interpretation)
There has to be a first moment for everything and Poul Anderson makes it seem very real in both these cases.
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Kaor, Paul!
And we see a similar "first moment" for Dominic Flandry in Chapter 17 ENSIGN FLANDRY: "His first space battle, as terrifying, bewildering, and exalting as his first woman. He lusted to be in a gun turret."
Sean
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