# An Obscure Wolfe Quotation *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Feb 2003* > 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. --- ### PMorris33 *08 Feb 2003, 03:13* Somewhere in one of his books of essays and shorter tales, he discusses some time travel motifs. He mentions the problem of someone time traveling from one ancient time period to another. Like going from Shang Ching to the age of Ming China. (Not his example, but mine) Can anyone remember what essay and in what book? I'd like to track down that idea. Thanks a lot Lupine pack Pippen ---