Tuesday, May 13, 2008

• Writer's Choice Featured Question 4d

  If you could travel through time, what era would you visit and why?
  Jennie_Nguyen
  

  
  This is a very difficult question... mostly because there are so many eras I'd like to visit... so many mysteries of history I'd like to clear up... so many things lost to time.
  
  If I had to pick just one place to visit though... it would have to be the Library of Alexandria before it burned. I can't think of a single event when more knowledge was lost to the world. If I had a time machine, I'd go to the Library of Alexandria and steal all the scrolls before they turned to ash. I'd have to time it just right so that no one was the wiser.
  
  Of course, who knows. Maybe someone with a time machine already did that and that's how the library caught fire... someone covering their tracks. I swear! It wasn't me! I'd be more likely to go there and prevent the fire. I don't mind creating a paradox to preserve knowledge.
  
  Of course, if I did have a time machine no doubt some officious little group would crop up to try and control time travel which means certain time periods would be strictly hands off. So maybe I could go to the Library of Alexandria, but only to watch events unfold. I could not stop the fire, and I could not take the scrolls. Ugh! Sheer torture! To make me watch all that knowledge go up in flame.
  
  To be honest, I can't think of a single timeline where I'd be content to watch as events unfold. Every single place and time I'd like to visit, I'd be tempted to tamper. I'd go to the Salem Witch trials with an army of people with tazers.I'd for darn sure be hanging out near that grassy knoll.... I wouldn't go so far as to kill the infant Hitler... instead maybe I'd support the arts or snatch him and get him committed to an asylum some when. I'd see if Alexander the Great really had a unicorn (and maybe steal it!!). I'd keep going back in time till I found out exactly when the sphinx was carved and see if there really is a secret room under it. I'd warn the indigenous people of the Americas that the people coming on ships were not gods and their treaties were not to be trusted. I'd discourage Einstein from ever excelling in mathematics (he was very poor in it as a child)... How about music Mr Einstein? Would you like to try out this lovely violin?
  
  In short, I would be a very obnoxious time traveler. I would not try to preserve the timeline at all.
  
  

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  May 13th
  

  
  This is the third day of Lemuria.
  
  

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  "Saint" Servatius is honored.
  
  

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  On this day in the year 1917, the Goddess in the guise of the Virgin Mary appeared to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal. The event, which was one of six divine appearances from May 13 to October 13, drew worldwide attention.
  
  

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