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. Richard, it was the widespread damage
that airborne disease could do to their plans that caused Headquarters to act so
radically. They cut it so fine that you and I and the rest of Gay's load came
within a blink of being killed by that heat bomb as we escaped." (And at this
point I barked my shins on a paradox-but Hazel was still talking:)
"They couldn't risk waiting even a few more seconds; some killer bugs might
get into the city's air ducts. They had projected the effect that would have on
Operation Adam Selene: disaster! So they moved. But the Time Corps doesn't go
chasing through the universes saving individual lives, or even the lives of
whole cities. Richard, they could save Herculaneum and Pompeii today if they
wanted to... or San Francisco, or Paris. They
don't. They won't."
"Sweetheart," I said slowly, "are you telling me that this 'Time Corps'
could prevent the Blotting of Paris in 2002 even though that happened two
centuries in the past? Please!"
Hazel sighed. Ezra said, "Friend Richard, attend me carefully. Don't reject
what I am about to say."
"Eh? Okay. Shoot."
"The destruction of Paris is more than two thousand years in the past, not
just two centuries ago."
"But that is clearly-"
"By groundhog reckoning today is Gregorian year A.D. 4400 or the year 8160
by the Jewish calendar, a fact I found quite disturbing but had to accept
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