EVENT TWO - INTRODUCTION

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"Jack and Jill went up the hill."

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You can buy a time traveller's dictionary online - get one from Amazon or from Ebay, or one of these other online megastores - I'm not going to recommend one - since they're mostly crap. 

 

The one I use was a valuable gift from a friend - you're gonna meet him, he features in this forthcoming and ongoing 'series of events.'  It's called - well now I look at it, its not actually a dictionary - well its a dictionary, but its not a dictionary that's dedicated for time travelling use - 

 

I've got a copy here in my hand - 

And as I inspect its cover, I've been away for some time and I haven't looked at it in a while - but I now realise as I read the book's title.....

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This ones quite expensive looking, as I said, it was a gift.  The letters on the spine and on the front cover are in gold - gold embossed I think they call it - I don't know whether its real gold, but it could be - could be gold leaf, which I understand is like a rolled gold...... anyway thats (sigh) .....the gold lettering is on the front as well, the book itself is black, hard copy, that's something else you'll find out, if and when you start to time travel yourself.  Always have hard copy books! - You don't want to (hahaha) - leave with an expensive book or a favourite book, with a soft cover and when you return the covers in shreds.  It doesn't always happen, but its happened to me enough times, to make me always purchase hard cover books.

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"Jack and Jill went up the hill" - I may as well tell you this now, I'm not forgetful, so throughout my story - which I've entitled "A Time Traveller's Chronicle" - THERE WILL BE GAPS - AND THAT'S NOT ME! - so how do we get around that?

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What I'll do is - I don't know when the gaps in my prose will occur (I do know the difference between prose and poetry) you'll get used to these asides, I have to do them, for although "I am of humble origin" a once popular phrase - neutral in its designation, in that, it didn't necessary indicate that you were poor - for one can be humble and wealthy.  But given the context - one would associate it with wealth - but to be humble - to exhibit humility - is not a bad quality, in fact its a good one - aye?

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And then there's the issue of 'self modesty' - a similarly, some would say, noble trait.  And so - to describe oneself as being of "humble origin," in my opinion - is at its very worst, a neutral phrase and at its best - will raise an eyebrow, in even the most exalted circles - I speak from experience, having attended in my 'time travelling expeditions' - 

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"The palaces and courts - villers and mansions - castles and other fortified battlements..." (page 37 - thats a quote from my book I referred to previously Time Travelling As An Acceptable Hobby.)

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I mean, I've been before an emperor who remarked - an emperor of some distant past, it is now circa 2022 - this emperor was a Caesar, in that the honorific title Caesar, was an appellation accorded him by the Senate of Rome - for as as you know, Caesar became a god and was deified by the Roman people.

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This emperor remarked, when I visited him (I went back in time - this will be the first and last time I will make this comment - since you will now, I assume, will be able to figure it out yourself, when I have travelled back...)  This emperor remarked - "So you are of humble origin - but no matter, I REQUIRE YOU - to be my personal advisor."

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That was a rough translation of what he said and I shall not boast or not claim too much merit for the appointment - since I was sent back in time to be appointed - and I read from my travel docit..... "To be sent back to a mad Roman emperor - in order to try to fix some of the problems he caused - will arrive with suitable qualifications, gifts etc .... recommendations, bribes, threats.... (no this man is an emperor....)"

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MISSION TO BE APPOINTED PERSONAL ADVISOR TO THE 'MADDEST EMPEROR'

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And so - all I had to do, was to turn up - or as it is fitfully put in Adelaja's (DETAILS) - Precepts - "Always be on time."  I never met the man, Adelaja that is - I met the emperor as I told you above.

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And so - now - where was I - yes - look! - jumping "Time Lines" - messing around with "Alternate Time Line Realities" - is a dangerous business - if you don't know what you're doing. 

 

I remember as a child (young boy) circa 1960s circa London - we jumped train lines - not to be recommended - we did it innocently not realising the danger - cos in those days, you had train lines running through parts of where I live and we would just cross them on our way to school, as a short cut, it saved going round an industrial estate.

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Well that I was told, was dangerous, I never saw a train - but I can assure you jumping Time Lines - well you have to be careful, because it can scramble your brain - yes there are things you can take for that and we look at it like a CEO of a company circa 2020 would look at travelling, flying - jet lag and that sort of thing - it invariably corrects itself over time.

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So - "Jack and Jill went up the hill."

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Jack is me of course (Jack, London) and Jill, a lady friend (I'll put it no more or less than that) now, the title of the book - oh yes, the jumbling up of paragraphs and pages caused by "time warp distortions" - something to do with event over the horizon, the Horus point or something like that.

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So what I'll do is, if I suspect that paragraphs "will jump" - or chunks of prose - will disappear, I shall repeat them - in red.  I have a statistical record - evaluated by a probablistic calculus - which is fed through one of the various apparatus, I carry around - pocket sized - which will indicate approximately when this has happened.  Its an expensive piece of equipment, given to me by my office and for use in my diplomatic work - but it does come in handy for domestic type situations, as you can see now.  I'm gazing at the screen now as I write - and it shows me, that the details of the dictionary - its title (the gold leaf one above) -  has now and I will read the text for you - 

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"Jumped into an Alternate Time Line and is now in your kitchen in a recipe book on page 37" - (that number again) - called "Ma Agnes Landry's - Creole New Orleans Style Cooking - Quick and Easy Guide" - that too was a gift."

 

Jill is a woman friend - OK - hold on, hold on - I'm coming, just getting ready I will be down in a mo - some people! no patience.

 

Alright - lets wrap this up - "went up the hill" - means we travelled in time.  So - I shall recount the details of that expedition - but it will have to wait till I get back.

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....ADDENDUM - The dictionary is called - "The Dictionary Of The Language Of Abstract Consciousness" - available free online at SOTI Cosmos (LINK) - note, it has no particular reference to time travelling - but that was deliberate, as the authors, from what I heard, sought to conceal its true purpose - and -

I never said that!!!

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