The Conquest of Time and the Happy Turning

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Time is the one thing that governs our very being - whether young or old, at the end of our days or just starting out in life, time is a fixed quantity. Measurable and exact, it orders our days and instructs our activity with a rigid and monotonous regularity. But what if time were to become fluid? If the hands on the sundial could be altered to speed on to the next day, or to revert to our yesterdays? Wouldn't this have immeasurable implication on every aspect of our lives? And if time becomes transient, the concept of our lives? And if time becomes transient, the concept of the death must surely take on a very different flavour. Once the controlling force of time has been usurped, a whole host of philosophical questions come in to play - questions that H. G. Wells ponders with remarkable dexterity.