It may be wrong to say that I was “sinking” in time, but that’s exactly what it felt like. Instead, I will say a few things about the behind-the-scenes aspects of these races that are less well known to the general public, but which are, after all, part of their very substance. The temporal motorcycle’s program was set to take me there, to the point and time calculated by the scientists, but my role was not only to take the photographs, but also to bypass the temporal nodes. But so I held it tightly, and it was not until I turned around that I plucked up the courage to holster it again. In college she had been told that they appeared in the mid-Jurassic, but she suspected that they appeared a bit earlier, so… I hastily snapped a few photos, then, because I could feel the elastic cords of time tightening, I bent down and picked up the double cone, holding it tightly in my arms so as not to drop it during the shock when I was pulled back to the present. “I was right, but I’d like to ask you one more favor!” she said and I think I felt her blush behind me.
