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I'd read a story with that premise. Reminds me of Eternal Sunshine.

• robocat 5y ago
  Maybe: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the-world-was-saved https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the...
  • Finnucane 5y ago
    Once i was talking with Michael Kandel how he translated that passage, particularly the list of nonexisting things that begin with N. "I just made that up," he said.
  • sooheon 5y ago
    That was great, thanks.
• ncmncm 5y ago
  After it was used on certain objects, enough of the past would change that it wouldn't have been invented anymore. In the extreme case, the Earth, moon, or sun, but likewise many antique artifacts. It is similar to the reasoning about unstable existence of any time machine that can send you back to before it was made.
• ncmncm 5y ago
  Also: after you use it, you are not even holding it anymore, and don't know you used it. You most likely have no reason anymore to want to use it, so it is in a drawer sonewhere.