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by Paul Taylor on March 6, 2008 at 12:00 am
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  1. GermanWapsiFan
    October 16, 2010, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

    To paraphrase Captain Kathryn Janeway, U.S.S. Voyager

    “The past is the future, the future’s the past… that all gives me a headache!”

    Poor Dietzel.

    • Dave11
      February 7, 2012, 8:52 am | # | Reply

      To paraphrase Doctor Who: “It’s all wibbley-wobbely timey-wimey”.

      Also, as I’ve observed before, English lacks several tenses needed to cope with time travel, something Larry Niven called “Exedrin Headache No. sqrt(-1)”.

      • Storel
        April 15, 2018, 5:07 am | #

        Not to worry, Dr Dan Streetmentioner has devised all the tenses we’ll need for time travel!

  2. Centaur1971
    October 30, 2010, 3:06 am | # | Reply

    but, if your future soon becomes your past, when could the past be called the present if its already in the future?

    • Just This Guy
      January 23, 2011, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Soon.

    • Glomoro
      July 29, 2017, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      I remember reading a character’s dialogue in a game recently that proposed that since it takes a fraction of a second for our brains to register anything we experience in the present, it’s already a part of the past before we even become aware of it. Basically, we’re always looking at the past

      • BarerMender
        October 2, 2017, 4:13 am | #

        Yeah, but the human perception of the present is about three seconds long, and the lag time is so very small that it doesn’t mess with our perceptions. Especially our visual perceptions, because the visual cortex is really fast.

  3. Centaur1971
    October 30, 2010, 3:09 am | # | Reply

    Yet, if the future becomes the present, will the future become the past if the past used to be present day?

    hmmmm…

  4. bmonk
    December 8, 2010, 5:14 pm | # | Reply

    George Herbert: (in God Emperor of Dune): “It is difficult to live in the present, impossible to live in the past, and pointless to live in the future.”

    • Aaron
      March 24, 2017, 1:38 am | # | Reply

      “The past is history, the future is mystery, now is a gift, that is why they call it the present.”
      (may have mixed up the quote a bit, sorry)

      • bmonk
        January 20, 2022, 9:59 am | #

        “Forget about the past, you can’t change it. Forget about the future, you can’t predict it. Forget about the present, I didn’t get you one.” — Birthday Card

  5. Fauxlosopher
    December 15, 2010, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

    To quote Kyra, “The past is a present that is already gone forever.”

    • Page-Mistress
      December 29, 2010, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      Kyra the lizard?

      • Katie B
        May 11, 2012, 3:15 pm | #

        Do believe so!! 🙂

  6. Rycr
    July 28, 2011, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

    I love Dietzel’s pose in panel four after her rambling. I can almost hear him saying, “Get on with it!”

    • Hinoron
      March 21, 2021, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

      I read that a bit differently:

      Dietzel: “I’m just trying to relax with a soothing, simple, game of jacks here. Fuck off, Yoda!”

  7. Kessog
    November 27, 2011, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

    And today is only yesterday’s tomorrow.
    Uriah Heep, Demons and Wizards album, Circle of Hands.

    or

    It was a new day yesterday, but its an old day now.
    Jethro Tull

  8. rich
    June 17, 2012, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

    “hello!? in the middle of a very important game here…!”

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