You No Go

Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels throat; he sw in allowed and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in that hand waved a check for decennary thousand dollars to the human race behind the desk.

Does this safari guarantee I come second alive?

We guarantee nothing, said the official, except the dinosaurs. He turned. This is Mr. Travis, your campaign Guide in the Past. Hell tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting. If you disobey instructions, theres a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return.

Eckels glanced crossways the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora that flickered straightaway orange, now silver, now blue. There was a sound the likes of a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame.

A touch of the hand and this burning would, on the instant, beautifully nobble itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter.



Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, mogul leap; roses change taste the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish; all, everything fly stern to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in westbound skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the meter before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.

Unbelievable. Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. A real Time Machine. He move his head. Makes you think, If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank immortal Keith won. Hell...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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