6/28/2023 0 Comments From time to time jack finney![]() ![]() ![]() This, it seems to me, is the central purpose of Time and Again. Look, but don’t touch!Įven more, it dissipates because Finney is using Morley’s presence in 1882 to describe what life is like on the streets and in the homes of that year - how people were back then. In part, that’s because he’s been warned not to do anything that might alter the course of history. That suspense dissipates somewhat when Morley makes the first two of four trips across 88 years. ![]() It’s a suspense story, at least for the first 40 or so pages, when Morley is being recruited for what he’s told is an adventure that can’t initially be specified and then for the next 70 pages as he’s tested, accepted and trained for his journey. So, there’s no wormhole, no elaborate machinery, just auto-suggestion. Here’s how it works: Simon Morley, a commercial artist and the novel’s central character, steeps himself in the history and daily life of 1882, then he lives for a time in a setting that hasn’t changed since then (the Dakota Apartments in New York City) and then he self-hypnotizes himself, falls asleep and, when he awakens, he’s back there in time. The method for making such a trip, though, doesn’t have much snap. ![]() It’s a science fiction novel inasmuch as it deals with time travel. Jack Finney’s 1970 time-travel novel Time and Again is a lot of things, including a cult favorite. ![]()
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