![]() ![]() ![]() Then they’d go home again, to see how this one turned out. They’d go back to the drawing board and then back to 1486 to try the new, improved process on another native. Were there any unpleasant side effects? There were? Oops. Had he survived the intervening nine hundred years? He had? How wonderful. Then they’d go back to their own time and see if their test case was still around. It worked like this: they would send a team of doctors into the past, into 1486 for example, and select some lucky native of that time and confer immortality on him. In order to test it, they had to invent Time Travel. The process for Immortality was developed first. Now, I was taught that they invented Time Travel first and developed Immortals so they could send people safely back through the years. ![]() They invented Time Travel and Immortality. Once, there was a cabal of merchants and scientists whose purpose was to make money and improve the lot of humankind. But you’ll understand it best if I begin by telling you what I learned in school. It will be a long story, because it was a long road that brought me here, and it led through blazing Spain and green, green England and ever so many centuries of Time. I will write down the story of my life as an exercise, to provide the illusion of conversation in this place where I am now alone. ![]()
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