Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Time Travelling II

There Will Be Time, VI

Jack Havig time travels:

"There was the sensation, indescribable, but which he had told me was not quite unlike swimming against a high tide." (p. 58)

Havig's confidant and our narrator is Robert Anderson, a distant relative of the author, Poul Anderson.

Havig experiences resistance, the opposite of the Time Traveller's "'...helpless headlong motion...'" (See Time Travelling.)

But another aspect of the experience is common to both:

"...as [Havig] 'accelerated,' light became a vague pulsation of grayness..." (op. cit., p. 58)

"'...as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous grayness...'" (Wells, p. 25)

We have been with both characters in the only way that we can, by reading and appreciating their accounts.

I would like to know the Temporal words of greeting and farewell but that reflection takes us into a second Andersonian time travel scenario, the Time Patrol.

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