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I think about time travel a lot. Mostly about what I’d do if I found myself in another time and what I’d do, knowing what I know, to get filthy rich. It would be easy to know what the next big thing was going to be if you knew what it was. And I’m not sure that last sentence really conveyed the importance that the conditional/past tense transition really had on what I was trying to mean. Maybe I should have used a pluperfect. It would be easy…going to be…if you knew what it had been. Better.
I usually think of it in terms of popular culture: I could write scripts for great films (“Think of it Steven, the alien hides inside the basket of the kid’s BMX and they take off into the air… what?… oh, it’s a kind of bike); come up with great inventions (“what if the headphones didn’t go over your head, but had tiny, tiny speakers that you put inside your ears”); and the most popular thing I come up with is making music (“thanks folks… I love you all. Now here’s a little number called It’s Not Unusual“)
Which got me to thinking one day…
Do you think that Paul is actually from the future and went back in time and arranged for Stuart to have a little accident with a gang of thugs?
