See:
The Time Machine And The Time Patrol III
1895 has another significance for time travel. Robert Anderson was born then. (p. 6)
Around 1968, Poul Anderson:
"...worried about what time might be doing to [Robert Anderson]." (p. 7)
That casual phrase, "...what time might be doing...," is doubly evocative. When Robert is seventy-three, time is indeed doing things to him but, in this context and although the fictional Poul Anderson did not know it yet, "time" includes time travellers. Anderson's texts are saturated with meaning.
The fictional CS Lewis converses with Elwin Ransom who travels to Mars and Venus. The fictional outer narrator converses with the Time Traveller who travels to the future. The fictional Poul Anderson converses with Robert Anderson who converses with Jack Havig who travels to the past and future. We appreciate these fictional transitions between fiction and reality.
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