of the movie, it was discovered Taylor took with him three books when he left for a far and distant time. If you could travel through time, a few thousand years, to a new and primitive society, what three books would you take with you...and why?
Remember, just three books!
2006-11-14 18:47:08 · 10 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Sorry to tell you but tis is a trick question. Every teacher has asked it of students since te story was written and normally people misinterpret the question all together. It was never intended to ask you what books would you take with you but if you were him what books would you take with you and that answer is simple. The story is about how man used science to all but destroy civilization. Taylor discovered a chance to correct the problem. How? By not allowing science to corrupt that new world. How is that possible to corrupt this new world? Easy, with a time machine. The first book you need to grab is your lab journal. It tells you how to build the machine. The next book you need is your financial journal. It tells you what all you need to build the machine. Finally, you need your personal journal. It discusses what all you were thinking including the project. Take those three books and the time machine and there is no way anyone can follow you. Noone in the future can read so the information is lost forever and unless you demonstrate how the machine works it too is just a giant paper weight. It is sad that so few people actually read the book and took to heart its message. I would have done the same.
BTW, Taylor was also the name of the astronaut in Planet of the Apes. Just something to think about while you are thinking about movies.
2006-11-14 21:49:21 · answer #1 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Traveling in time is a rare privilege granted only to the few if at all. I'd take along a Journal to write the accounts of my adventure. It would be like Marco Polo, and his accounts of his journey to China and back. Everyone wanted to hear what he said of it, everyone wanted his book.
I'd like to take an early 19th century book with me, as they are the most practical in the branch of general wit and wisdom. Have you ever noticed that? Certainly, there's great wisdom and insight in books of any era of history. But the ones to my liking are those around the 19th century. There's a little touch of the past century thinking that I also like lingering. They have a way of describing many small things, and make them notable. From my masters, I was taught that it was not good enough that you should be heard, but that your point should be thoroughly understood. Though no great representative of their ideals, I can't help admiring them, and if I must live in the past, I must imitate my teachers. I'm not sure what book it should be, but it would probably be some history or law book. With history sometimes comes the writer's philosophy, and the old law books I have known are spiced with colorful imagry and ample discription of even things one thinks hardly has anything to do with law. The minds of the 19th century writers are often very colorful, to say the least.
For the last one...I'm still working on that....let me see. Yes! I have one! It's going to be some kind of a survival book. How to live in all seasons, weather, primitive civilizations, fix wounds, cook from nothing, and stay alive in the jungle and desert.
2006-11-17 08:31:50 · answer #2 · answered by Tet 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boy Scout Manual
Army Survival Training manual
Unabridged Dictionary
2006-11-14 18:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible: Because it is the book of my personal faith and it gives me hope and strength
One of those how things work books with all the diagrams in them: Because sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.
A Small pocket dictionary: Just in case
2006-11-14 19:11:47 · answer #4 · answered by jlb777 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a very good question. I remember my dad asking this question when I was a kid and they asked it on the movie....
A complete medical guide on human anatomy.
A survival guide of some kind.
if your religious the Bible and if your not then a book on basic mechanics of machines
2006-11-14 20:31:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible - Bases of Western Society
Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire (Gibbon) - Incredible!!
Don Quixote (Cervantes) - Best novel ever written...It's funny.
2006-11-15 07:11:00 · answer #6 · answered by The Muffin Man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adam Sandler might celebrity as me. it would be a comedy approximately all of the stupid humorous stuff that occurs in my existence, and prefer maximum Sandler flicks i prefer to attach to Drew Barrymore on the top.
2016-10-22 03:03:12 · answer #7 · answered by shine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible ..because of my deep religious faith and its great lessons of Love, faith and instruction
Sonnets from the Portugese...By Elizabeth Barrett Browning..It illlustrates poetry and the love between a man and woman
Medical manual.....in case a medical emergency arises
2006-11-14 20:59:17 · answer #8 · answered by prettycoolchick38 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Normall, although I would substitute a medical manual of some kind instead of the dictionary.
2006-11-14 20:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by david p 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible
Lord of the Rings
Wizard and Glass-S.King
2006-11-14 18:50:11 · answer #10 · answered by RIDLEY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋