The number of these becomes a source of humour for the reader, and terror for the protagonists - with that much coincidence in the air, the continuum must be trying to choke down something big. Not the coincidences, the trope itself - when push comes to shove, the space-time continuum will pick causality over plausibility every time. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Complete-the-Quote Title: Again, the book's title comes from Jerome K.Can't Take Anything with You: A major plot point is that you aren't supposed to be able to bring anything forward in time.Boy Meets Girl: Ned and Verity meet and fall ultimately fall in love.Belligerent Sexual Tension: Baine and Tossie seem to be completely at odds until the very end, when they get together.Baby Talk: Tossie, to her cat Princess Arjumand (aka.Romeo and Juliet) ended badly, which seemed lost on him. Analogy Backfire: Terence invokes several couples from literature, comparing them to the "true love" he has for Tossie.Jerome's Victorian comic classic Three Men in a Boat, to which is makes a few references. The novel's name is a reference to the subtitle of Jerome K. Ned and Verity go back to Victorian England to try to sort out the problems caused by the missing cat, before history begins to change. Then another historian, Verity Kindle, accidentally brings a cat from Victorian England to the present. Ned Henry is charged with finding out what happened to the Bishop's Bird Stump (a bird stump, incidentally, is a kind of flower vase this particular bird stump is cast iron, and extremely Victorian), and is having some unexpected difficulty with the task. In To Say Nothing of the Dog, the History Department of Balliol, Oxford University, has been thrown into chaos by the pet project of a rich donor: to rebuild a cathedral that was destroyed during World War II, exactly as it was at the moment it was bombed. Most of the history of this period and rules of time travel are laid out in Willis' earlier novel Doomsday Book, which takes place in the same universe. This is mainly because it turns out that you can't bring things from the past to the future, or at least, you aren't supposed to be able to. The story is set in Oxford, England, about 60 years into the future, after Time Travel has not only been invented, but pretty much everyone except historians has lost interest in it.
To Say Nothing of the Dog is a 1997 novel by Connie Willis.
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