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    Immortality, Sadness And Drinking With Shakespeare In 'How To Stop Time'

    Matt Haig's new novel isn't exactly about time travel — it's about a slow-aging man who travels through time just by staying alive for centuries. And yes, he meets Shakespeare (who has bad breath).
    by Jason Sheehan Feb 07, 2018 3 minutes
    "How to Stop Time" by Matt Haig

    Here's what drives me crazy about time travel books. In (almost) every single one of them, the time traveler's most notable experience is meeting other people who aren't time travelers; who were, in their proper moment, just famous as all hell.

    Hitler, Jesus, Shakespeare, the king of this or that. Sometimes this is the purpose of the time travel (being such a famous occupation of the chronologically gifted that it has spawned its own sub-genre of semi-historical fiction) and sometimes it's just a pleasant

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