some slightly cryptic thoughts about time travel i'm not gonna elaborate on for now:
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time travel to the past is about memory and time travel to the future is about imagination. they're parallel because memory and imagination are the same process
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time traveling to the past to change it is about memory reconsolidation
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fixed-timeline time travel where you can't change the past is about acceptance, determinism, free will
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time traveling to the future is about whether your plans are good. do you marry well, are your descendants well provided for, etc.
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from : time loops where you go back repeatedly to try to change the outcome is about the stuckness of emotional memories
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from : time loops where the past and present are entangled (c.f. Holes) are about memory reconsolidation using metaphor (healing either individual or generational trauma)
(i have to admit i don't grok this one yet)
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wait have you not read Holes? 😮
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i've read holes but i don't grok the connection to the metaphor thing yet 😅 wanna spell it out for me a bit more
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like the Focusing approach to things, you can heal trauma through acting the schema using imagery, metaphor, analogy, etc
Ideal Parent Figure being one specific instance of the technique
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anyway, today I needed to groan 5 times, cry for a minute, turn into my mother and walk across the sea while the world around her faded to blackness and then her family cracked and shattered and radiated out around her; how was your evening?
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right yes but what's the connection to time travel where the past and present are entangled? if you wanna spell out holes as an example i think i'd find that helpful. brain working slow this morning, or month maybe 😅
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it's been a long time but doesn't he (spoilers!) break the "ancestral curse" by repaying the debt that his ancestors owed by acting it out again with their descendants, or something to that effect? the story depicts this by interweaving the two stories to show their equivalence.
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I feel like this is a fairly common trope in fiction that is not otherwise scifi/fantasy?
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