Don't forget to pull a cracker and don't forget to spurn the chance to tangle with a dinosaur.īarney the Purple Dinosaur. And, as we all know, there are few things more pleasing in literature than seeing fools get their comeuppance.Īnd with that, merry Christmas. While this is no doubt true, it's not a moral that's likely to make much impact on the lives of most of us.īut the tale does have the trump card that the two customers are so idiotic that you positively want them to get eaten by dinosaurs. Which is that it takes a real man to tangle with dinosaurs, so don't try it unless you can handle a big gun. And any potential for time-line alteration is ignored as the story gives us a totally different moral. It's a very odd story that wrong-foots you by not going in the direction you expect it to.Īfter all, thanks to Ray Bradbury's A Sound of Thunder, we all expect such tales to end with the present having been irreparably altered by some wally standing on a butterfly in the distant past.īut not one butterfly gets trodden on in this tale - or is even seen. Inevitably, it all ends in disaster for the two clients, prompting the next prospective customer to decide not to take up his option of going.
Sadly, it all goes awry when, against their better judgement, they take two people with them who have lots of money but not much sense.
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