# those mirrors *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Dec 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Damien Broderick *12 Dec 1999, 18:16* Stephen Baxter, in a talk for Picocon 13, Imperial College, London, 4 February 1996, remarked: < Wells's Time Traveller was an expert in "physical optics." Wells notes, in passing, the Traveller's "seventeen papers" on the subject in Philosophical Transactions ( The Time Machine , p60.). > [HG Wells, The Time Machine , Heinemann 1895. Page numbers in the text refer to Everyman's `Centennial' edition, ed. John Lawton, 1995.] No wonder the Time Traveller never came back. He wanders the House Absolute to this day, searching for the right mirror. Damien Broderick ---