Hallie exclaims, it's Carrie and Tad! They look exactly like us!! From the back!! *** In the middle of some otherwise dialogue-weak episodes, Selby or Thayer will have clever things to say, such as Q here. Julia's been talking about her hopeless task of rummaging through old records for signs of time travel or odd staircases, almost ready to give up, then suddenly finds the "blueprints" labelled "The Stairway Into Time", and Q says: "You're telling me that somebody actually drew up plans under that heading?"
Julia points out that a linen closet shouldn't have that elaborate a doorframe. I was thinking that from the first. *** Stop bellowing at Daphne about old Q's book, Q! She gave it to you to read, just read it!
The stairway made me wonder if there might have been lots of possible inventions that were never invented, but could have been a long time ago, that we still don't know about. Maybe we look past certain possibilities because they don't seem high-tech enough. I just heard an article about how the ancient Greeks who built the Parthenon had much better tools than we have today. That surprised me.
I love this: "There is no such thing as time. There is only space, physical space, and it's space that measures the distance between those points which we, in our ignorance and folly, insist are points in time. All time is one point, one moment. It is ever-existant, and it is ever-accessible.... and it is physical space that can be used to make all time immediately accessible. I intend to do precisely that." Old Q 1840.
