![]() ![]() ![]() The Caliph never has a voice through out the story, and we might reasonable assume that we the readers are grouped with the Caliph in receiving this story. The last sentence of the intro in fact ends with 'I am at peace.' Perhaps then this setting is a reference to the narrator's own journey to find peace. Additionally, the official moniker of Baghdad is 'the city of peace'. Perhaps it is a means of giving the story a fable like feel. Perhaps it is and indication that time travel itself is not the main message of the story, and that true message of the story is applicable across time periods. Perhaps the setting is a challenge to the general tendency of time travel stories to be set in the future. ![]() These two pieces of information can perhaps tell us a bit about what the author wants us to consider in telling this story. The narrator is addressing the Caliph, a leadership or stewardship position that is both political and religious. The story is set in the historic city of Baghdad, and briefly in Cairo. This is a story about time travel, or more accurately, about how the ability to time travel requires introspection and consideration about how we interact with the present. ![]()
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