And some of those I don’t know, who are maybe just beginning to write, are people I will know and admire in the future - in person, by reputation, or through their books. I know and admire many of these people - either personally, by reputation, or through their books, and some I don’t know. I’m aware that the room will be full of people.

It might be confusing, and ultimately not even worth it, but that’s the risk you take when you write anything.Īs I write, I’m sitting in my bedroom, which doubles as my office because I live in New York, where few people with children at home have the luxury of a real office, and I’m thinking about the room at Simmons College where I will stand up and say these words out loud. So to encourage all of you, I have written this short speech from two temporal points of view: I will address you as both the person I am as I type these words, and as the person I will be when I stand up to say them out loud. Most people, however, are afraid to try it. This is a great example of how we can use the principles of time travel to improve our everyday lives. I have already had the joy of seeing you do it.” So if something great happens and I’m dead, don’t worry. Not long after, when I was about twenty, she said to me, “I want you to know that I have imagined everything wonderful that you might do in your life. He died before she got it, though, so he never found out about it. A long time ago, my mother got a job that would have made her father proud.

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