Last time I got an open-ish assignment I wrote an essay on why the chickens like the brackish water in Maule's well in "The House of the Seven Gables" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. That ought to have taught Mr. Professor Guy not to give assignments like that in the future.
Anyways. Theme. Time travel and some of the more or less amusing paradoxes and ethical dilemmas it brings. Stanislaw Lem's "The Star Diaries", Harry Harrison's "The Technicolor Time Machine", Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever", the "Back to the Future" movies, the TV series "Life on Mars".
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