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Actually read this whole series quite a while ago. I'll try to remember what happened and join in. :)
Here's the first question for this week!While in the hospital, Thursday is visited by her future-self who instructs her to take a job in another town without so much as a reason why and then disappears. Thursday followed the instructions without one hint of doubt. Even in a world where time travel is possible, would you have blindly followed instructions from your future-self?
When you put it like that, Jennifer, I'm embarrassed to admit I thought she was crazy for not even questioning it for a second. My main problem with it is that she was in the hospital! If it were me, I would have blamed my vision on pain and/or pain meds!
Absolutely -- in a world where time travel is "normal." Seems like a lot of crazy stuff happens in Thursday's world as it is, so that might be why she didn't question it!
Can we even wrap our brains around a world where time travel is "normal"??? I mean I guess it would be pretty cool, but of course it brings millions of other problems with it!
My first thought when I read the question was "Why yes! I would love someone (even myself) to give me a direction to go in life." With things out of my control as I wait for things in my life to go the way I am hoping to go, a little bit of something would surely be nice.
I read this book awhile ago and I thought it was a very inventive concept. I have read a couple of books now by this author and they are all such a treat.
I'm always writing letters to myself as a kid, and as a kid I would have loved the reassurance that would have come from a future me. But, right, I'd probably question my sanity, first, if it actually happened.It's been awhile since I've read this, and I know the time-travel/meetings-with-future-selves gets even more complicated in later books-- I feel like jumping ahead and mentioning some of those bits, but I really must not!
I think, even though I don't live in a world where people can stop time, I would still trust myself. I know I don't make hasty ill-thought decisions... if there's any one person I would trust the most, it would be me! So even though it would be weird, startling, and make me question my sanity, I would still do what future self said :)
Ariane wrote: "Here's the first question for this week!While in the hospital, Thursday is visited by her future-self who instructs her to take a job in another town without so much as a reason why and then disa..."
Honestly, Yes, I think I would. If i apparently felt it was necessary to go through the trouble of time traveling to warn myself I would probably assume that it was worthy of at least considering it. I don't think I would have bothered to tell myself to do something unless it was important and since I know this I would probably follow my instructions. : )
As another thought. Her father is an avid time traveler so she would have been quite comfortable with the idea that she would be able to go back in time to tell herself. They don't seem to worry too much about paradoxes or temporal time shifts, except in the case of Filbert Snood and I'm still not entirely sure what happened in his situation.But my point is that I doubt the thought even crossed her mind that she was losing her sanity.
