In Another Life, I was a Lancre Witch
From Witches Abroad, by Terry Pratchett:"You can't tell me that's worth tuppence," said Old Mother Dismass, from whatever moment in time she was currently occupying.
No-one was ever quite sure which it was.
It was an occupational hazard for those gifted with second sight. The human mind isn't really designed to be sent rocketing backwards and forwards along the great freeway of time and can become, as it were, detached from its anchorage, seeing randomly into the past and the future and only occasionally into the present. Old Mother Dismass was temporally unfocused. This meant that if you spoke to her in August she was probably listening to you in March. It was best just to say something now and hope she'd pick it up next time her mind was passing through.
I feel like that sometimes. I know most of you never see that part of me (thank Sasha for that, she's good at not letting me leave the house when I'm confused) but, well, linear time is hard.
No-one was ever quite sure which it was.
It was an occupational hazard for those gifted with second sight. The human mind isn't really designed to be sent rocketing backwards and forwards along the great freeway of time and can become, as it were, detached from its anchorage, seeing randomly into the past and the future and only occasionally into the present. Old Mother Dismass was temporally unfocused. This meant that if you spoke to her in August she was probably listening to you in March. It was best just to say something now and hope she'd pick it up next time her mind was passing through.
I feel like that sometimes. I know most of you never see that part of me (thank Sasha for that, she's good at not letting me leave the house when I'm confused) but, well, linear time is hard.