The Day Tripper

by James Goodhand

But ever since I can remember, I’ve had this restlessness about wanting to know things. Sometimes it’s almost a panic: so much to learn, too much for one lifetime.

“Here we are, Alex, on a small rock racing through the universe, currently in darkness because a trillion tons of floating moon has obscured our view of a raging gas fire ninety-three million miles away, itself also racing through this near-infinite universe.” He grins. “And you’re telling me that one man’s consciousness being modestly de-tethered from the calendar is impossible?”

“We are all eternally surrounded by our own past and our own future.”

“Science is a wonderful discipline—the best, perhaps—but it does rather get in the way of new ideas, what with its incessant belief that everything it already knows is correct.”