(He wondered, as he watched the curved form of the planet Plimsoll hove into view on the screen, what it would have been like to live in ancient 20th Century England -- say in a cozy stone cottage, with a buxom wench, join the Teddy Boys, eating kippers and squeak on the banks of the ancient Nile, the river of Kings....something like that, he thought. He would have to look it up....)