Carol, I can't help but feel that I'd be so much more affected by this if I had any clue what was going on...

Part of it, of course, is my fault for not having read the original epic

and another part of it is probably that I stayed up too late last night (my homework was not particularly brilliant but I did get it all in on time) and my brain is fuzzy today... but I'm losing track.
Though I did wonder about paradoxes, and how could they go back to their lives when it's the result of them telling their earlier selves things, when they don't remember being those earlier selves getting the advice?
I guess I'll continue not-reading the story

and see if I figure things out at some point...
PJ