“[speaking of going back in time] I’d particularly like to go back to my own childhood, see if things look as I recall them.”<\/p>\n
Ira blinked. “Run a chance of running into yourself?”<\/p>\n
“Why not?”<\/p>\n
“Well . . there are paradoxes, are there not?”<\/p>\n
“How? If I’m going to, then I did. That old cliche about shooting your grandfather before he sires your father, then going fuff! like a soap bubble\u2014and all descendants, too, meaning both of you among others\u2014is nonsense. The fact that I’m here and you’re here means that I didn’t do it\u2014or won’t do it; the tenses of grammar aren’t built for time travel\u2014but it does not mean that I never went back and poked around. I haven’t any yen to look at myself when I was a snot-nose; it’s the era that interests me. If I ran across myself as a young kid, he\u2014I\u2014wouldn’t recognize me; I would be a stranger to that brat. He wouldn’t give me a passing glance; I know, I was he.”” -Heinlein, Time Enough for Love<\/em>, p. 358.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “[speaking of going back in time] I’d particularly like to go back to my own childhood, see if things look as I recall them.” Ira blinked. “Run a chance of running into yourself?” “Why not?” “Well . . there are paradoxes, are there not?” “How? If I’m going to, then I did. That old cliche […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1622],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-time-travel","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}