Historians give us the next best thing to traveling backward in time, so as to look over the shoulders of our predecessors and see how they coped with their predicaments while planting seeds of ours. Of course, we cannot really do that.
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The protagonist in H.G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine travels fast forward in time, temporarily (!?) separating the passage of time in his own life from the passage of time in the world at large. Of course, we cannot really do that either.
On the other hand …
Is Time Travel a Fantasy?
No. It just happens
(whether we like it or not)
on a fixed schedule.
The still from the 1960 film version of The Time Machine that appears here has been cropped to fit well on this page; it appears in an interesting post on TimidMonster.com.
- Film still of actor Rod Taylor in his time machine
- From the Film Vault: The Birds and The Time Machine posted by Rachel M Taylor [2012-06-14]
Mellow Curmudgeon 
You take an esoteric concept of time travel and transform it into a basic daily reality. Sometimes simplicity is the best explanation.
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Yay! I’m a time traveler. I’m so good at it, I don’t even need a machine.
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It’s good you don’t need a machine to time travel since you might clunk your junk with it; just like you did with my rake! Lol. Clever haiku, Mel. ⏰
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