Overrated Decadence - Night, Rain And Wind

Some experiences are common to more than one timeline. Manse Everard tells Piet Van Sarawak that the decadence of Augustan Rome is overrated. See here. (Scroll down.) See also the combox here for the information that letters of introduction would be necessary.

Jack Havig tells Robert Anderson:

"...that earlier decadences were overrated, or at least consisted of tight-knit upper classes which didn't welcome strangers."

-There Will Be Time, V, p. 51.

 

Meanwhile, where do time travelers (seem to) come from and return to? 

 

Havig:

 

"...would return, as if out of night..." (p. 50)

 

Carl Farness/the Wanderer/the Grey One:

 

"...strode through the shadows, out the door, into the rain and the wind."

-Poul Anderson, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth " IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 333-465 AT 372, p. 459.

Havig and Farness come from and return to time but the mystery is expressed by night, rain and wind.