Interview With a Time Traveler
by DUST
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Why don't we start with your name?
What is it?
What's what?
Your device
You don't know what that is? it's an audio recorder
I see
Just something wrong with your memory
Perhaps all those years of playing that barbaric game have left you with some cognitive challenges
Football's not barbaric
Only a matter of time before it's banned for the public good
Will you tell me the name or not
I would rather not. 
It's quite boring.
What is your name?
We both know my name is not the reason you are here
You're right
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Super-Pretty gossip
You sent these to me
Days, weeks, months before you could've possibly known about it.
I have been busy . . .
You're right.
I don't care about your name.
I want to know how you did this.
The answer is easy, Paul.
I'm from the future.
I can see that you don't believe me.
Well you're from the future... What's not to belie---
So too much to ask for
To expect people to have a little wonder in the world
"He who cannot pause to wonder and stand rapt in all is as good as dead
his eyes are closed"
Albert Einstein
He would have thought you were full of shit too
On the contrary Albert was quite easy to convince---
Are you done?
very well
if you insist on being so close-Minded
I Will show you to the door
 
So what's that
Surely I need not explain the purpose of a simple walking stick
You expect me to believe you're from the future.
But you can't fix something stupid as a busted leg
Why must everything that is broken be fixed
Scar on your right wrist you've had it since you were five years old
You thought you could fly if you just wanted it bad enough
So you jumped off the roof
Broke it  in five places.
You couldn't possibly have know that
This is delicious
What is this?
Filet Mignon
lost prim ingenious
You find it barbaric?
Eating the flesh of another sentient being
I guess you eat soylent green where you come from huh?
textured pressed soy protein actually
Quite delicious
Hmm
now
Are you ready to begin?
Begin  what?
your interview
well, I mean you won't tell me your name, so
Where you're from
Republic of Cascadia (North America)
2689
It's really quite beautiful.
You should visited it sometime
Your family and this republic of Cascadia?
I did
long time ago
Did you get over it?
I have not had to
So how does it work?
This umm...
Time machine
even if I could explain it to you in a way that you would understand
Would take far more time than either of us has to spare
okay fair enough
Why you travel alone?
I am not alone
I am constantly surrounded by the most fascinating people on my travels
I have seen the most incredible things
I Stood on Golgotha
And converse with Jesus of Nazareth as he hung on the cross
I Argued the merits of alternate versus direct current with Nikola Tesla.
I Watched the end of our universe and the birth of another with the great meta-physicist Zacchaeus
But of all the places I have been of all the people I have met it is where I went first
That had the greatest impression
July 16, 1945, Trinity
You spoke with Oppenheimer
and first detonation of the atomic bomb
I needed to speak with someone who understood the gravity of what I had just done
"Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds"
It was not the bomb he spoke of
You see we stand on the edge of a precipice
the ability
To travel through time
this technology poses a greater risk to the continued existence of mankind than any nuclear bomb
it needs a steward
A caretaker
until the world is ready for it
 
Are you okay?
Well as can be expected
It's killing you
Everything has its price
everything dies
Not everything dies, in its 30?
I've lived a fuller life than you could have imagined
Please
sit
I don't know what else to talk about
Tell me about the corner of Main and 59th
I don't want to talk about that
I will not offer you absolution
nor will I assign blame
You can choose to confront your grief
or to run from it
But try
as you might
you will never be able to change it
Time has come for me to pass along my burden.
I've chosen you to be my replacement
Are you ready to see it ?
Why  me
Because you understand the value of life
and because you jumped
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