Can the past be changed? If time is an illusion, then we can change the past. Make all those bad things not-happen. Make really good things happen, instead. But those would be illusions too. Go fish. [Click ‘Random Post’ above – be astonished] … [Read more...]
“Harry Changes the Past” / Memorable Fancies #0122
2 April, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Harry decides to change the past. He invents a machine and goes into the past and changes it. Now he can’t remember that he ever did that, in the old present that now never happened. -or- Harry decides to change the past. He does, resulting in Harry’s no longer existing in the present. So he couldn’t have decided to change the past. He’s still here, in the present. Harry’s head hurts. -or- Harry decides to change the past. He travels into the past, but then assumes he’s in the … [Read more...]
“I want to be your past, or, What are you doing last year?” / Memorable Fancies #1365
2 November, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“Are you my now?” – Stacy Doris] Let’s just cut to the chase here: I want to be your past, so you can wonder where I went, what I might be doing now, without the nuisance of having to live through all that crap with me again for the first time. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet (originally published as a chapbook by Silkworms Ink). … [Read more...]
“Changing the Past” / Memorable Fancies #609
13 February, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Desperately, we want to change our past, not to have done those awful things. We ask science to invent a way to let us go back, to give us a re-do. Sadly, scientists tell us, time is a one-way journey, like that final walk to the electric chair. No, they say, you can’t go back and do something different; that’s impossible. But we don’t need to visit the past, they explain, because everyone’s past changes itself. At night, in sleep, our memories gradually give us a new … [Read more...]
“LOOK Homeward” / Memorable Fancies #607
11 February, 2014 by Leave a Comment
“Ghost, come back again” – Thomas Wolfe Scientists developed a technology allowing us to see into our own pasts. Use of the LOOKward app was highly restricted at first; only the secret Guilt Surveillance Court could authorize it. But it’s been hacked. Now all of us can see our own pasts, in all their detail. It was expected that millions of people would use LOOKward, now that it was available to anyone. There would be LOOKward TV shows, parties. Wouldn’t everyone like … [Read more...]
“Changing the Past” / Memorable Fancies #559
25 December, 2013 by Leave a Comment
If you change your past then you can never know, in your new present, that you did change your past. Perhaps you’ve changed the same past before, over and over, searching for the one past that will, at last, make today right. We can call this “the Scrooge dilemma.” <END> If you liked this post, please tell your friends and share a comment here or in StumbleUpon, Reddit, Facebook, or other social websites. Subscriptions to this blog are available at … [Read more...]
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