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James Gleick: Time Travel

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The Evolution of Time Travel

Wells opened the floodgates. He started something and the many streams and rivers of time travel begin at this point with the time machine. Meanwhile off somewhere else a great modernist literature was being born which shows a growing fascination and awareness that time could be very very weird. I'm talking about Proust and Joyce and Virginia Woolf they are all about time. Time is their subject and time is being manipulated in their work in new ways. The fact that we occupy an ever larger place in time capital T is something that everybody feels a larger places in time.

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