In a way, it makes sense, especially here. The different decisions offered by such a place as Milliways, and the different speeds that people's lives go by outside the place must affect the future - or the past, depending how you look at it.
So even though he has encountered people from his world, his future, who clearly recognised him in a way that is... suggestive that his life will go a certain way -- nothing is certain. It is both fascinating and sobering.
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Date: 2010-05-07 11:47 pm (UTC)"I see," he says.
In a way, it makes sense, especially here. The different decisions offered by such a place as Milliways, and the different speeds that people's lives go by outside the place must affect the future - or the past, depending how you look at it.
So even though he has encountered people from his world, his future, who clearly recognised him in a way that is... suggestive that his life will go a certain way -- nothing is certain. It is both fascinating and sobering.
"You were a well known personage, then."
Were, are... tenses are tricky.