Timeheart and Temporal Paradoxes

[Caledonian]

I think the aspect of So You Want to be a Wizard that most caught my imagination was the implied temporal paradox.

After reading the Oath, Nita talks with Fred in Timeheart, although neither her first meeting with him nor his death have happened yet.

More than anything else, this brought home the idea that Timeheart was truly timeless: the laws of causality didn't apply.

Thoughts, anyone?

Logic is a poor servant, but an excellent master.
-- The Book of Forgotten Things
Forget science fiction: other people are the ultimate aliens.
-- The Vorlon Ambassador's Aide

[Caledonian]

I think the aspect of So You Want to be a Wizard that most caught my imagination was the implied temporal paradox.

After reading the Oath, Nita talks with Fred in Timeheart, although neither her first meeting with him nor his death have happened yet.

More than anything else, this brought home the idea that Timeheart was truly timeless: the laws of causality didn't apply.

Thoughts, anyone?

Logic is a poor servant, but an excellent master.
-- The Book of Forgotten Things
Forget science fiction: other people are the ultimate aliens.
-- The Vorlon Ambassador's Aide

Thanks for clearing that up for me I thought she was talking to a tree .It was way to confusing so I let it set and that makes it worse but, now I got it. Thanks a mill.

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Thanks for clearing that up for me, too. I never knew what it was that she was talking to! Wow, that does bring up interesteing possibilities. Timeheart might not necessarily be timeless; maybe it just doesn't use sequential time.

[Caitlin]

i thought it might be a prophesy of some sort, and if that's what it really was, then did kit have one? and the emoticon is there b/c i want to try it out
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[Rowen Avalon]

Yes, I noticed this and it's my favorite thing about SYWTBAW, which is normally my least favorite. It's so full of time paradoxes! We have the Timeheart thing, and throwing the battery at the door, and the Lone One sending the perytons after them to get them into the world in the first place -- DD sure knows her time paradoxes. Must come of being a Star Trek writer.

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yea thx i was wondering about that too, and now it seems so clear!!!

thank you again!!!

[Civi]

What do you mean??? Of course I knew she was talking to Fred. What are you talking about?

-IV-

[CelticFlame]

I knew it was Fred she was talking too, but I admit the way time and related things works is quite confusing