Mind Travel

Through into a little room whose narrow window showed the blue day-lit sky—a room with not much in it but a bed, a carved stool, and a boy of his own age, dressed in the kind of dress you see in the pictures of the little sons of Charles the First.

I must have a subject. And there is a certain—risk. Not great, now, I’m sure. My apparatus is improved. But, in my first trial, my subject was—injured. I’ve been wondering, Mr. Webb, if you—

To come to my point, Richard, I have for many years been very disgusted with the fact that all the human race—indeed every living organism—must waste a third of its life in sleep. Think what a race we’d be if we never slept!

Your time scale has been altered. A minute in the outer world would be a year in this room.

I felt so strange . . . as if I were not alone! As if I were not myself!

It was Ned who fell under the hypnotic trance . . . and Ned who responded to the commands of Jiminez!

There is no money . . . just the house. As the last of the Jaremys, it’s your duty.

Keep your voice down, Harrison! You might wake Martin, and that would be dangerous! It would alter the past!

Oh . . . The Crucifixion. You want to witness it, of course—

“But wouldn’t our objective reality be affected?”

He nodded. “It could be,” he said, “since, in the absence of any real passage of time, it would be in temporal ratio to our involvement in our pasts, which might force it into a different time plane altogether.”

The fool . . . Little does he realize I’m building the instrument for my escape!

Somehow I’ve become another Jessamy in a different time! It must be a different time because of the clothes. Nobody wears long skirts like Matchett and Aunt now—I mean that—oh, I don’t know what I mean!

“But I’m not Clare,” Charlotte began to say hopelessly, then stopped herself, explanation being impossible, especially since this girl seemed to think so incredibly that she was Clare.

He thought she wouldn’t answer but finally she said, “What if I can’t go back? What if I have to live out Brandy’s life? She lives an awfully long time, Corbin.”

Sensors show nothing, sir, But it appears a moment in time repeated itself exactly, for everyone.

If you do travel back in time, even though it’s in your subjective future, it’s in the objective past. So if you could travel back in time and if you were determined to change the past, when it came down to it, you’d either decide not to, or you’d fail.