Time's Arrow Study Guide

First, there was a dark sleep. The narrator awakened to the sight of doctors all around him. He was completely paralyzed for several minutes, then noticed that he could move his eyes. The doctors seemed disinterested and distracted, as if they were thinking about something else. He suddenly remembered that he hated doctors. Strength started to return to his body and he could move again. Then time passed and orderlies carried him on a stretcher out of the hospital and put him on the ground. They shocked him and he thought one of them kissed him. Then more black and he was back in his house feeling strangely. He walked in the door backwards and remembered his name was Tod T. Friendly. No, that's wasn't completely true. It was his name, but yet not really him. He was not Tod, merely a voice i... (read more)