A Vas Deferens
September 27, 2010 in Blogs
O.K., I took advantage of the subject of today’s Examiner temporal anomalies article to reference one of my own personal obscure puns: there is a vas deferens between the man and the woman. If you don’t get it, look it up–it’s a medical thing.
That article relates to that medical thing only slightly, as The Time Traveler’s Wife part 15: cutting off the future tells of events arising in the wake of Henry’s vasectomy (an “ectomy” is the surgical removal of a body part, in this case the “vas”, short for–yeah, you probably get it by now, right?). It leads to Clare’s first kiss, which leads years later to her complaint that he forced her to love him, and thus she never would have married him had he not kissed her–but then, he never would have kissed her had she not married him, and so we have that predestination paradox that happens when two events are each dependent on the other–you can read about it in the article.
I am doing my best to get caught up on everything, although the financial concerns are still looming, and although the weather has cooled some the computer is still at least a bit unstable (the room is in the high seventies). I feel a bit like Latimer when Mrs. Fredricks told him that he had never faced anything like this before: so, same as always?
Mondays are still terrible.
–M. J. Young