The image on the current post is appropriate because it shows Holmes and Watson in a railway compartment. Everard and Whitcomb travel by train in 1894 in "Time Patrol."
When reading "Time Patrol," do we:
understanding the reference to the British barrow;
recognize the private agent and his companion?
Other questions:
Why is 1894 nearly a significant Wellsian date? (It is the year before the publication of The Time Machine.)
Are the people of the Ing Empire descended from the English and thus from the Angles? (The Ing Empire exists after a post-2987 Interregnum.)
Everard displays a remarkable ability to guess Stane's intentions and thus to put him off his guard. Two new recruits are sent, with neither preparation nor back-up, on a mission really requiring a team of Unattached agents. But the Danellians must know the outcome.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
My view is that anyone who has read even just a few of the Sherlock Holmes would have immediately recognized WHO was this private agent and his companion.
And I hope I would have remembered how Wells THE TIME MACHINE was first published in 1895.
I never thought of it before, but the "Ing" Empire is reminiscent of "Eng" and then "England". A last surviving bit of the UK in the Time Patrol universe?
Now that you pointed it out, it does seem odd for fresh minted Patrol agents to be trusted with handling something as risky as the Stane case. Makes me wonder if the Danellians instructed more senior agents to let Manse and Charles do their thing.
Ad astra! Sean
Must of.
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