![]() ![]() No one ever remembers the past life where they were the second-most-successful aluminum siding salesman in Columbus, Ohio. ![]() It's like people who believe they can recall past lives: They always seem to have been Napoleon or Cleopatra. Sometimes this is the purpose of the time travel ( Let's kill Hitler! being such a famous occupation of the chronologically gifted that it has spawned its own sub-genre of semi-historical fiction) and sometimes it's just a pleasant diversion, but it always seems to happen. Hitler, Jesus, Shakespeare, the king of this or that. In (almost) every single one of them, the time traveler's most notable experience is meeting other people who aren't time travelers who were, in their proper moment, just famous as all hell. Here's what drives me crazy about time travel books. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title How to Stop Time Author Matt Haig ![]()
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