Time Traveler’s Guide to 1001 Tense Formations by Dr Dan Streetmentioner
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Author: Dr Dan Streetmentioner
Publisher: not known
Source book: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (H2G2 #2)
Life sometimes gets very complicated for hitchhikers travelling the universe with a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in their backpacks. Travel can turn into time travel at the drop of a towel (don’t forget to pick it up - that towel could be vital to your survival) so it’s probably best to keep a copy of Dr Dan Streetmentioner’s handy Guide to 1001 Tense Formations about your person. The main problem you may experience with time travel is grammar, so it’s helpful to be able to consult a definitive guide if you’re not when you think you ought to be in your timeline.
Admittedly Streetmentioner’s book is a lengthy and complicated work, of little practical interest to most readers, as exhaustive as it is exhausting - or should that be as exhausting as it is exhaustive? but it might usefully help you describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you time jumped forward a couple of days in order to avoid it.
Later editions saved on costs by only printing the first section of the book up to Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional as no reader had ever been known to get further than that point in the book.
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