ATDTDA (14) p 403-405

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

"It's a little ramshackle for a time machine, isn't it?"
(402) -- but they sign on for a supposed trip into the future

which is by turns puzzling (what kind of a future
features millions of humans walking - or, rather,
"ranging" - with millions of horses) and 
frightening/disgusting/disorienting
(screams and the smell of excrement and dead tissue,
and they can't see the walls anymore...)

and yet, they use their outrage as a bargaining chip
to get Dr Zoot's source, so they can find out more and
(apparently) do more time traveling.
They are hooked...but what's their motivation?

(like the 40-Year-Old Hippie comic  -- "200 trips, and
they've all been bummers - but I ain't givin' up")

Just a word on the most common, mundane sort of time
travel - it's memory (or pointed toward the future, 
planning/imagining) - maybe for the Chums to start
thinking about all the things they've done, and 
making independent plans, is the kind of
time travel that begins to subvert their unthinking loyalty
to the Chums Command.