The Eternals are capable of traveling “upwhen” and “downwhen” within Eternity and entering the conventional temporal world at almost any point of their choice, apart from a section of the far future which they cannot enter. Collectively they form a corps of Platonic guardians who carry out carefully calculated and planned strategic minimum actions, called Reality Changes, within the temporal world in order to minimise human suffering as integrated over the whole of (future) human history.
A key plot element that emerges quickly as the story unfolds is the relatively static nature of the human societies in the various future centuries, and the repeated failure of space travel in all accessible centuries. We later learn that Twissell (Harlan’s superior) is from “a Century in the 30,000’s,” yet nothing much is different in that time.
Twas the directed pink light that gave you away. 😉
good luck sharing the bedding, i’ve heard white rats are notorious bedding-shredding-stealing-all-the-good-soft-stuff while-you-sleep types… those, those, rats.
(my eyes are grateful for this quite readable font and point size. thank you!)
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…move to Brazil…
it’s not quite synced.
Your Times Roman font leads me to believe they have mistaken this for My Left Wing.
You’re back, huh? 😉
Twas the directed pink light that gave you away. 😉
type? 🙂
good luck sharing the bedding, i’ve heard white rats are notorious bedding-shredding-stealing-all-the-good-soft-stuff while-you-sleep types… those, those, rats.
(my eyes are grateful for this quite readable font and point size. thank you!)