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Fiction

Bygone Days Yet To Come

Tim Wilkinson reports from the philosophical past, present, and future.

Our philosophical society meetings have become much more entertaining since the invention of the Chronometric Displacement Turbine. The transport of tomorrow can pick you up today, and drop you off yesterday. The last meeting was a real corker, with philosophers from many eras converging on Greece in 350 BC. (Come to think of it, maybe that was the next meeting, rather than the previous one; time travel has turned diary management into a real headache.)

When we materialized at the Athenian station, Philippa Foot was already there, making some adjustments to the new railway leading to the conference centre.

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