Dandelion Wine Time Quotes

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Quote #10

"If you do this just right," he murmured, "you can adjust, make allowances…" To himself he was thinking, You can erase lines, adjust the time factor, turn back the years. (28.53)

In squinting his eyes at Helen Loomis's face, Bill Forrester imagines he can see her as a young person. It's like the low-budget, 1928 version of those scary age-progressed photos floating around the Internet—which is one way a machine, in this case a computer, can use memory to create a person of the future.