Invisible Traveler

Before Northwood’s horrified sight, he vanished; vanished as though he had turned suddenly to air and floated away.

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—

Of all five senses, sight alone remained to them. They could see as before, but with unusual clearness.

Of all five senses, sight alone remained to them. They could see as before, but with unusual clearness.

My respected Comrades. I am serious, and through over eighty, am in full possession of my senses, when I say that I will now demonstrate to your satisfaction that my colleagues and I have succeeded in partially controlling time!

The mathematicians are still working on that, Your Honor, and the best they can say now is that it was probably somewhere between the mid-Twentieth Century and the last Twenty-First. However there is a strong possibility that none of the material reached any enclosed space which would attract it, and that it may all have been dissipated harmlessly in the form of incongruent molecules.

Professor Mark Hanson has tus far been unable to get a single person to use his remarkable discovery for recovering the past!

“And watching the great Pythagorous at work.”
“And the three days that he spent on that little surveying problem. How one longed to hand him a slide-rule through the barrier and explain its working.”

I can tell you that the things you have seen and explained with reason could fit the story of Taliesin, though your sister would rather not hear it.

If these shadows do not change, Tiny Tim will not see another Christmas.

If these shadows remain unchanged, I see an empty chair where Tiny Tim once sat.

I’m from the future and the past and other temporalities that you can’t comprehend. But all you need to know is that yiou must not write this Hemingway story. If you do, I or someone like me will have to kill you.

You see, this thug nightclub owner threatened our little Lois Lame over there—

Oh, oh, oh—I think you went back a little too far!

Now remember, Mr. Scrooge, we can see them, but they can’t see us.

Scrooge: Is there no chance that boy will be spared?
Christmas Present: Not if the future remains unaltered.

He’s like the anti-Scrooge.

And I would tell you that you need to be careful when you go back in time—make sure you don’t change a thing, no matter how tempting that might be.

‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’

‘You know if I could stop what happened to Vince, I would,’ I told her. ‘But Time Witches can’t really change things without bringing a crapstorm down on their heads. If I thought there wouldn’t be consequences, I’d do it in a heartbeat.’

[. . .] it can be kind of mind-blowing and a little bit nauseating to jump through time, so trying to hold an invisibility spell of your own at the same time could be hard. Hey.’ She gave me a quick hug. ‘Don’t worry, okay? If Bill and Ted can handle time travel, then so can we.’