There's "Goodnight Sweetheart", too - I'm sure the world can handle another subject on the theme, especially traveling forwards.
simply by knowing about the virtues of boiled water and the necessity of cleaning surgical instruments in it every time
Quite. There are lots of things in the past that I wouldn't have a clue how to do, but I reckon that "I can read and write, and I can cure cholera" would at least be something of a social benefit.
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Date: 2015-06-24 07:43 pm (UTC)simply by knowing about the virtues of boiled water and the necessity of cleaning surgical instruments in it every time
Quite. There are lots of things in the past that I wouldn't have a clue how to do, but I reckon that "I can read and write, and I can cure cholera" would at least be something of a social benefit.