journal features

i think my daughter is a time traveler

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2015.05.30

I saw my future daughter as an adult on the street, today. Same curls, same beaming smile, same blended racial features, same curvy lines, she was even wearing a dress that I bet our little girl, now three, would like as an adult.

I almost said hi but a) it might have blown her cover or b) on the off chance that it was in fact not our daughter, trekking as an adult during the time of her youth, confused and terrified some strange woman. So daughter of ours, your secret's safe with me.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton