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  •  Time warp (none / 1)

    Some days, I think we've fallen through a rip in the time-space continuum and will find ourselves with Eckels, the protagonist of Ray Bradbury's great short story "A Sound of Thunder."

    Eckels is a time traveler who, against instructions, alters something in the past and returns to find his present unlike the one he left -- but scarifyingly like what ours is becoming. Read it and see.

    The degree to which you resist injustice is the degree to which you are free. -- Utah Phillips

    by Mnemosyne on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 04:36:22 PM PDT

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    •  I've posted an ObRef to that sometimes (none / 1)

      just "Who stepped on the butterfly, dammit?" not just to see who gets it but because it really does express so much about the present.

      We are down the wrong leg of the Trousers of Time...

      "Don't be a janitor on the Death Star!" - Grey Lady Bast (change @ for AT to email)

      by bellatrys on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 05:21:42 PM PDT

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      •  wasn't (none / 0)

        that from a Bradbury story about time travel or some such?  At this point, would stepping on the butterfly be all that bad?

        It's still upsetting for some people to know that the hippies were the ones telling the truth about Vietnam and trying to help America. - Anonymous

        by eunichorn on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 03:17:37 AM PDT

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        •  How do we know somebody already hasn't? (none / 0)

          I love alternate universe stories. One can only speculate what would have happened here if Al Gore would have been President...but it's fun to speculate, and it certainly could not have been any worse.

          by Black Brant on Thu Dec 30, 2004 at 12:08:11 PM PDT

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