How I Got Out Of Writing An Essay On H. G. Wells' "The Time Machine"

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/6691670/Calvin-Hobbes-Time-Travel-...

I used to have a friend with whom I would talk about rock bands. On more than one occasion, he referred to a group as being "derivative" of another group, when chronologically, the group he was calling derivative came first.

His response was always that the "derivative" group jumped ahead in time to hear the newer band, and came back and played their derivative crap back in their time.

Moral of the story: the late '60s through the late '80s were an undocumented golden era of musician time travel.

I plan on reading this yesterday, thanks for the link.

"The Time Machine" was a great book, Between Wells and Jules Verne I could stay busy for days.

I didn't understand this bit.

On the way out of my professor’s office, a young man (handsome, introspective and yet obviously ambitious) steals my book report. It doesn’t really matter since I’ve already received my grade. But it was still a painful reminder of how tough you have to be in this world.

Can someone explain?

It's his past/future self stealing his book report.

Ah, cool, thanks. I didn't notice that the date was the same as the date of "I steal the book report."

He stole the bookreport from his future self; his bookreport was stolen by his past self.

So...who wrote the book report?

It's turtles all the way down.

That's why he only got a C-

This is one of my favorite plot devices in science fiction.

See Asimov's drastically underrated The End of Eternity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity

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