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to those who preceded them in history. Their journeys offer insight about
making meaningful connections with past lessons in order to prepare for the
future. Their psychological scars warn of the damage that living in the past can
have on self and society. Circum stances may change, but the issues of this
moment are the same issues that continue to be addressed by humans throughout
time. Making improvements upon human nature, as with human identity, is a
lengthy and tumultuous process. The paradoxical beauty of time is that by
forgetting, we can move on. By remembering, we can change.
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Notes
Kym Morris
*Dan Falk, In Search o f Time: The Science o f a Curious Dimension, (New York: Thomas
Dunne Books, 2008), 2.
^ Ibid., 274.
^ Ryan Nichols, and Nicholas D. Smith, and Fred Miller, Philosophy Through Science
Fiction: A Coursebook With Readings (New York: Routledge, 2009), 315.
^ Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 18.
^ Ashraf H.A. Rushdy, “Families of Orphans: Relation and Disrelation in Octavia
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^ Octavia Butler, Kindred ifiosion: Beacon Press, 1979), 12.
^ Ibid., 244.
®Octavia Butler, Kindred (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 177.
^ Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 184.
Octavia Butler, Kindred {Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 260.
** Octavia Butler, Kindred (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 169.
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 424.
Colin Jones, “Plague and its Metaphors in Early Modem France” Representations 53
(1996), 98, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2928672 (accessed June 30, 2009).
Ibid.
John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History o f the Black Death, the Most
Devastating Plague o f All Time (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005), 217.
Octavia Butler, Kindred {^osion: Beacon Press, 1979), 177.
'^Ibid., 177.
Angelyn Mitchell, “Not Enough of the Past: Feminist Revisions of Slavery in Octavia
E. Butler’s Kindred," MELUS 26, no. 3 (2001): 64, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3185557
(accessed May 18, 2009).
Octavia Butler, Kindred (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 116.
Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 451.
Lisa Woolfork, Embodying American Slavery in Contemporary Culture (Chicago:
University of Illinois Press, 2009), 79.
Octavia Butler, Kindred (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979), 63.
Dan Falk, In Search o f Time: The Science o f a Curious Dimension, (New York:
Thomas Dunne Books, 2008), 107.
Ibid., 119.
John Kelly, The Great Mortality: An Intimate History o f the Black Death, the Most
Devastating Plague o f All Time, 141.
Ibid., 241.