Your now is not my now; and again, your then is not my then; but my now may be your then, and vice versa. Whose head is competent to these things? —Charles Lamb (1817)
The fact that we occupy an ever larger place in Time is something that everybody feels. —Marcel Proust (1927?)
And tomorrow Comes. It’s a world. It’s a way. —W. H. Auden (1936)
We’re well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flashforwarded and flashbacked yet still kept on rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We’re post-history. We’re post-mystery. —Ali Smith (2012)
WHY DO WE NEED time travel, when we already travel through space so far and fast? For history. For mystery. For nostalgia. For hope. To examine our potential and explore our memories. To counter regret for the life we lived, the only life, one dimension, beginning to end.
Gleick, James. Time Travel: A History (p. 295). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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