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Back to the future - an analysis
So we watched Back to the future as a family last night. Everyone having seen it many times before. It was exciting, I was excited. Inside my mind, while watching back to the future, there is a kind of fireworks party island of thoughts and memories and associations and theories…
Comedy of Manners
Elsewhere, I've described the fact that "Back to the future" is a member of a particular genre of comedy, the "comedy of manners". My favorite novels, when I'm looking for something fresh, are the works of P.G. Wodehouse. These stories, including the Jeeves & Wooster series, hav…
Coward, Bully, Hero
One of the concepts in Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a thousand faces" is that the "Hero" archetype also has these "shadow forms" - the coward and - the bully. Because of my age/culture etc, I tend to compare everything about The Timeless Art of Story Telling to a particular mast…
Temporal Paradox
Doc: A paradox! Marty: What? Doc: A paradox! Marty: You mean one of those things that destroys the universe? — *Back to the Future II* A temporal paradox is any paradox that arises due to a person, object, or information, travelling backward in time. As discussed in Unbound…
Time Travel Models
There are various ways that time-travel is described in stories and in physics. - Some of these differ in how paradoxes are (or are not) resolved. - Some differ in the physical limitations they impose.1 There are various meta-studies and attempted catalogs of the entire field. …
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