"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Part 1 by Ted Chiang
LeVar Burton Reads
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The Gate of Years
Basra said he had built a gate of years for his shop in Cairo. With that step you could visit the back dead of twenty years hence. You could seek out your older self and have a conversation with him. Afterwards you could step back through the gate of years and return to the present day. Each person learned something different when talking to their older selves, says Basra.
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