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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:21 PM Jul 2018

OK, come clean people

Who stepped on the butterfly in the time safari? I know one of you did.

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OK, come clean people (Original Post) Recursion Jul 2018 OP

y buddy Ray did it... but he is dead now so... lapfog_1 Jul 2018 #1

What story was that? dawg day Jul 2018 #2

A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury csziggy Jul 2018 #3

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)

1. y buddy Ray did it... but he is dead now so...

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:29 PM

Jul 2018

and all you have to do is go back in time to when he bought the ticket and stop him because that won't change anything at all!

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

2. What story was that?

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Wed Jul 25, 2018, 09:57 PM

Jul 2018

Bradbury maybe?

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

3. A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury

Reply to dawg day (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 25, 2018, 10:37 PM

Jul 2018

Full story: http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-S/1820/J%20Johnston/short%20stories/A%20Sound%20of%20Thunder%20with%20questions%20--Ray%20Bradbury.pdf

An excerpt:

"Unbelievable." Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."

"Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the
worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go live in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now. All you got to worry about is-"

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