Re: What was that about Y-G-WILL-V?

From: George W. Harris <gharris_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 00:24:14 -0500


At 12:00 AM 3/25/2005, you wrote:

>Sounds very similar to the plot in Harry Harrison's "The Stainless Steel Rat
>Saves the World" - with the main antagonist going backwards and forwards
>across time trying to defeat the SSR but not having seemingly come from
>anywhere in the first place.
>
>Temporal paradox, gotta love it!!

          That isn't a paradox. Going back in time and getting your grandmother pregnant with your father isn't a paradox. Going back in time and killing your grandmother before your father is born is a paradox.

>mike

-- 
Doesn't the fact that there are *exactly* 50 states seem a little suspicious?

George W. Harris                                gharris_at_mindspring.com



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