UnHappenings Quotes

“a man travels back in time and murders his grandfather, thus preventing his own birth, the universe simply carries on with the grandfather dead, the time traveler forever unborn, and it does so without a care in the world as to how that murder was possible in the first place. No one will ever be aware that history has changed, and no one will ever be aware that he was supposed to have offspring, and grand-offspring. No one, that is, except the time traveler. That person, who should now never have existed, continues to exist anyway. And again, the universe just shrugs it off, insisting—and rightly so—that it owes no one any explanation for its conduct.”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings

“stomach briefly reminded me that alcohol is poisonous, but got over it. This”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings

“that is, but the certainty that while I was lying to myself, myself had been lying to me.”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings

“Okay, I can answer that one. It’s a cognitive dissonance side effect of the jump field. No one expects people to materialize out of thin air, or disappear into it, so when they see it happen, their brains adjust to believe that we must have already been there. The effect is more dramatic for backward travel than forward travel, by two orders of magnitude. And it doesn’t work on anyone who is expecting you, or anyone who is staring at the exact spot where you materialize. There are also a few people who aren’t affected at all, but it’s something like one hundredth of a percent of the population.”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings

“that was the day I first became aware of the non-deterministic nature of the universe, and that the past is every bit as flexible as the future. More to the point, that was the day I realized no one was aware of it but me.”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings

“you are a train wreck,” I said. “You are an absolute disaster. I’ve only talked to you for ten minutes total, and I already know you are a mess that has no idea how to clean itself up.” I leaned”
― Edward Aubry, UnHappenings