Wish Travel: There are hints that old Hughes wished himself into his past: “Where? Where to go? Nowhere to go except in the past, before all of this happened.”
Themes
Ex Nihilo Obects and People: Perhaps the revolver is an ex nihilo object that young Hughes will keep until old Hughes uses it years in the future.
Self-Defeating Acts: If old Hughes succeeds in convincing young Hughes to change, then there would be no reason for old Hughes to come back in the first place.
From an unspecified place, possibly near Plandome on Long Island or Penn Central Station in NYC, May 2025 ⋙ to circa 1995. Note: “Is this gonna happen again, up ahead, thirty years from now?” Uncertain whether the old man returns to his time.
We are one, the same person: Jonathan Hughes.
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