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Quotes from To Say Nothing of the Dog — Connie Willis

born 1945 United States

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“Servants don’t travel with their employers.”
“How do they do without them?”
”They don’t.”

To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)

If they were part of the self-correction (i. e., of the space-time continuum) what did that do to the notion of free will? Or was free will part of the plan as well?

To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)

It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick’s Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.

To Say Nothing of the Dog (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Connie Willis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.